With the first five-for of his Test career, Daryl Tuffey made a mockery of the fact that he was playing his first Test of the series. Our graph shows how Tuffey drew the England batsmen forward, crucial on a pitch offering such plentiful sideways movement. The England batsmen played 55 Tuffey deliveries on the front foot, almost as many as Andre Adams (39) and Chris Drum (33) combined, and that brought him the wickets of Mark Ramprakash, Ashley Giles and Andy Caddick, while indecisive footwork did for Mark Butcher and Graham Thorpe. As well as being his first Test five-for, Tuffey's haul continued his excellent form in home Tests. In four and a half matches, he has 22 wickets at 25. In three Tests overseas, he has three wickets at 89. Tuffey also broke with tradition by knocking the stumps over for the first time in his Test career. Before this match, 95% of his Test wickets (18 out of 19) had been out caught, but here his symmetry was a lot neater: two were caught, two bowled, and two lbw.

Be it back or forward, it seems that decisive footwork is the key to scoring runs on this pitch. In the whole innings, England scored 62 runs off 75 balls off the back foot (equal to 4.96 runs per over), 79 off 129 off the front (3.67) and just 4 off 70 when their footwork was indeterminate (0.34), that from one leaden-footed biff from Andrew Flintoff off Chris Drum.

Rob Smyth is on the staff of Wisden.com.

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