Marnus Labuschagne proves himself a sparkling Ashes understudy | Geoff Lemon

The batsman brought in after Steve Smith’s concussion enjoyed the rub of the green and now has three Test fifties in a rowOf all of the prayers and invocations and chants and rituals aimed at the Ashes, through the red-sock superstitions and the shushing of jinxes and the supplications to latent power within tattered posters of Derek Pringle, someone must have connected to a good sprite who sprinkled some magic over the Australian No 4 batting position.First it was Steve Smith, doing what