The second day in Visakhapatnam was one of harsh realities for England and, in particular, two of the novices in the side. Both Haseeb Hameed and Ben Duckett, while falling in wildly different ways, were the victims of misjudgment.
In the case of Hameed the mistake was someone else’s and after a debut in Rajkot that saw him record the highest international score by an English teenager and earn comparisons with some of the greats of the game, his experience was one of returning to earth with a bump.
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