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17th over: England 50-0 (Lees 24, Crawley 25) West Indies hold onto a slip and a gully, while handing the ball to Jason Holder, who appears at the stumps like a sudden sandstorm over the horizon. Holder bowls wide and Lees waits, leans, and sends the ball spinning through cover point for four. A couple more and that’s the fifty partnership from 101 balls – a fine starting stat to slip in the jacket pocket and riches indeed compared to a few months ago.
“I completely understand why people are finding this match boring,” writes Robert Ellson, “and the worries about the detrimental effects poor pitches have on the future of the game are completely valid. It’s not a “good advert for Test cricket”, as the saying goes.
