Opener’s flashy 25 was of a piece with the McCullum ethos but he could do with a bit more fear, and a return to his county
And frankly, were we not entertained? There were times during Zak Crawley’s blustery, tempestuous second innings at Headingley when you wondered whether we were watching a kind of brilliant performance art, perhaps even a sort of interpretative dance in which a 24-year-old man attempts to express the full gamut of human emotion via edges alone.
Either way you could argue that there is no player in this all-singing England team fulfilling his brief more perfectly than Crawley.
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