JASON Roy will come again. His coach Trevor Bayliss is in no doubt, nor should anyone else be, that, when he gets his game together, the Surrey opener will return to make big scores quickly against the world’s best ODI attacks.
But the incident that cost Roy his place against Pakistan showed that he will be of little use to them unless he gets his mind right, too. England’s innings against Australia was only two balls old when Roy, under mounting pressure for his place, got himself in the spin-dryer against Mitchell Starc and felt the ball smash into his pad.
As he saw the finge...
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