“What a delivery. What a start. A man who sometimes goes a little bit under the radar because of the travails of the man at the other end, but Alex Lees is under the pump, too”.
The man at the other end is, of course, Zak Crawley. It is a measure of Crawley’s struggles, and the wider conversation about England’s loyalty to him, that his reaching stumps last night, for 17 off 77 balls, felt a mini-triumph. Crawley did a good job for his team at an awkward moment, 44 for three, but the acclaim coming his way would have quietened a touch if he was unable to make it count today.
Butcher was right. The ball from Lungi Ngidi that kissed Lees’s outside edge in the second over of England’s response to South Africa’s 151 was a beauty, just moving enough off the seam. But Lees was furious because he knows the lot of the Test opener is to receive good balls, and have to find a way to survive them.
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