Thanks Brad, we owe you a beer

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THANKS, Brad - we owe you a beer or six.

That's what the Australian top order should be saying after wicketkeeper Haddin spared their blushes for the fourth time in as many Ashes Tests on Saturday.

The New South Wales gloveman, thought by many at this time last year to have played his final Test match, continued his extraordinary summer on Saturday with another rearguard action to ease his mates' burden.

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Only time will tell how valuable his 65 - 22 of which came in a potentially pivotal last-wicket stand of 40 with Nathan Lyon - will be at the MCG.

But suffice it to say, it's not his first rescue mission.

Batting at No.7, Haddin has come to the crease in the first innings with his side in various levels of crisis - three times with fewer than 150 runs on the board.

Each time he has made at least a half-century and only once has he not batted for at least two and a half hours - and that was during Saturday's knock when he fell only seven minutes shy of the mark.

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He has moved to a comfortable second on the list of run-scorers for the series with his 390 runs - behind only David Warner's 466 - comprising one ton and four half-centuries at an average of 65 and strike rate of a hair under 70.

But in a game when stats are often overused, there are a couple that shouldn't go overlooked - especially given they were produced when games were in the balance.

Of the 842 first-innings runs Australia has scored after Haddin arrived at the crease, his 332 account for a staggering 39.4 per cent.

And, as England's tail has folded more repeatedly than an accordion at a zydeco music festival, Haddin has now batted for 10 minutes short of 14 hours, mostly with the bowlers.

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