England middle order’s car-crash batting puts New Zealand in the driving seat | Andy Bull


Ollie Pope, Dan Lawrence and Zak Crawley the most egregious offenders as Tim Southee puts rash hosts in a great mess

In December 2011, a group of 11 sports car enthusiasts from the Japanese island of Kyushu were driving in convoy north along the Chugoku Expressway when one botched a lane change, clipped the median barrier, spun round and scattered the cars behind him into a series of futile evasive manoeuvres that ended in what newspapers would describe as “the most expensive pile-up in history”.

When the police arrived they found eight wrecked Ferraris, two Mercedes, and a Lamborghini strewn “in a great mess” along a long stretch of the motorway. The police chief described it as “a gathering of narcissists”.

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