KATYA WITNEY

On Day One of the Lord’s Test match, a handful of the written media gathered in an overly large room in the ECB offices. After several minutes, Heather Knight and Jon Lewis were ushered in ahead of their rounds of broadcast media during the lunch interval to give a second press conference in three days following the announcement of England’s T20 World Cup squad, and the group to tour Ireland next month (see page 9). While, as expected, they mostly covered old ground, under the surface their answers gave key nuggets of information for what not only the next ...