Aussie Agar’s last stand makes it a Test debut to remember

Ashton Agar’s record-breaking Test debut will give Englishmen nightmares for years to come, but was just a “dream come true” for the Australian teenager.

Agar recalled at Trent Bridge, after making the highest score by any No 11 in Test history and falling only an agonising two runs short of a century, how he chose cricket over Aussie Rules football because he got fed-up of being “the little fat kid ... getting smashed around”.

It is a decision he will surely never regret, because he was the one doing all the smashing yesterday as he shared a world-record last-wicket stand with Phil Hughes (81no) to help Australia recover from 117 for nine to 280 all out.