BAIRSTOW SHOWS IT’S HOW MANY, NOT HOW, YOU SCORE

Jonny Bairstow biffed the ball from off-spinner Ashley Nurse through the covers, bustled through for two of the three runs he needed to complete his first ODI century, slipped when turning for the third and finally belted down the other end to make it.
Lots of words beginning with B there, none of them beautiful.

Substance not style: But Jonny Bairstow has a full range of highly effective shots

And that is the beauty of Bairstow; in white-ball cricket as well as the Test format he has always known his value as a batsman was about content and hang the style and finally, after his man-of-t...

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