Didn’t get much sleep last night. Well, not during the hours of play, anyway. England had slipped to 21-3 when Joe Root and Harry Brook came together. By the time the rain came they had put on 294 runs together: just about the best batting partnership in a test match I have ever seen. If the rain hadn’t come, England might be starting day 2 on 420-3. Every one of Brook’s runs came off the middle of the bat, and Joe took his ones and twos in his typically graceful fashion. I can’t remember a chance being given by either of them. Sublime stuff, and the New Zealanders didn’t know what to do. Brook didn’t treat the bowling with contempt, exactly (he wasn’t showing off), but he just leathered every ball that wasn’t going to hit his stumps. Amazing. I’ll be watching again this evening. The Ashes? Bring them on!
Licensed today: a street in Bungay, Norfolk…
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