Over-by-over report: How will the second day of the first Test unfold at Lord’s? Join our writers to find out
Morning everyone and welcome to the second day of the Stokes-McCullum era. Test cricket, the only form of the game for which these two are in charge, is just about the slowest thing in all of sport. Each match takes five days, and every day is the length of three movies. For the hardcore fan, it’s like sitting through The Beatles’ Get Back 25 to 30 times a summer. Going to the game is a chance to tune out, switch off, travel back in time. But not yesterday, when all that went out of the window.
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