England bowler took wickets having apologised for his offensive tweets but his future is now out of his hands
The day’s play was a half-hour old when Ollie Robinson came on to bowl, first change at the Nursery End. The applause was loud and conspicuous, an unexpected show of support for a man who surely must have been worried how the crowd were going to react to him.
In a lot of ways the situation in front of him now was pretty similar to the one he had faced when he was bowling the previous evening. Devon Conway and Henry Nicholls were still in, their partnership up to 160 now. In others, of course, it was a lot more challenging. The few hours between that spell and this one were probably some of the most gruelling through which he had lived.
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