The opener played positively in England’s second innings but fluffed his lines when facing Roston Chase on 84
Rory Burns keeps a diary about his batting, regularly jotting down thoughts in the search for self‑improvement. One fancies his latest entry may read much like that of Blackadder’s Captain Darling on the day of the big push: “It simply says ‘bugger’.”
It was on the stroke of lunch on the fourth day here in Barbados, with just one English wicket snared, when Jason Holder called on Roston Chase.
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