DEREK PRINGLE

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Not content with Bazball wowing us last summer, the sceptics immediately wondered how it would go in the foreign climes of Pakistan and New Zealand. Well, it simply seduced us all over again, only for us then to ponder whether the Aussies, the world Test champions, might prove its nemesis. Unsurprisingly, there was a stumble against our Ashes foe but Bazball’s swagger righted itself in time to claim bragging rights in a drawn series.
You’d have thought that comeback might have been a coming-ofage moment, an acknowledgment from us all of its omnipotence. But no,...