Who said this leg of the tour would be easy? After the pummelling in
Australia, England’s cricketers crossed the Tasman Sea for more of the same
medicine. Plenty of questions were raised before the series. Could Trevor Baseless
improve his shocking Test record abroad? Could England batsmen stop losing
wickets on the stroke of an interval? Could the top order batsmen get any more
than 50? Like a petty criminal in a police interview, England ‘no commented’.
Naturally in no way is the previous sentence of any correlation (for any
lawyers reading) but this was also the return of Ben Stokes to the side. Could
England finally kick start their winter?
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