ENG vs AUS | Twitter reacts to Salt's disbelief after succumbing for duck to Starc's pace and bounce

Some rapid knocks in the middle order provided Australia much-needed impetus in the latter half of their batting innings in the third ODI against England at Chester-le-Street to help set a commanding target of 305. Phil Salt and Ben Duckett walked out to bat in response and found themselves on the receiving end of a stellar spell from new-ball gun Mitchell Starc. The left-arm quick bowled four overs with the shiny Kookaburra, managing one maiden and scalping both the openers while only conceding just 17 runs. While the numbers themselves tell quite the story, the manner in which he dispatched Salt truly elucidates the sheer threat of one of the all-time greats.

Too early

The limit

Slowly realising Phil salt is sky of odi cricket

— stellate (@bim_kamal) 

Mitchell Starc's destruction continues



He takes two precious wickets: Phil Salt & Ben Duckett.

— Abrar Iqbal (@abrariqbal1000) 

On fire

Never works

Phil salt in challenging conditons as a opener is never gonna work 

— Devesh Pant (@DeveshP79010226) 

 Third class batting against Australia Poor Poor performance One of the third class player phil salt

— Vijay DG (@VijayDG4) 

Not this time

Poor performance vs elites

Phil Salt is someone I would be dumping from the 50 over setup. Only gets easy runs, really poor record versus the elite.

— Ben (@Bengn1987) 

Remove marnus and edit it with Phil Salt.

— MOHIT TALREJA (@mohhhitweets) 

Time waster