It should come as no surprise that batsmen who have been told to whack a white ball into the stands cannot bat the day out
Well, that wasn’t supposed to happen. On a mild, sunlit Birmingham day Australia bowled straight, fielded well, swarmed around England’s batsmen and took wickets with disarming ease in front of stands filled with garrulous southern hemisphere voices.
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