By Richard Edwards

We’ve been here before: Steve Smith congratulates Crawley on his stellar innings
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In the end it proved academic. But what could have proved a potential series-turning knock at Old Trafford has earned Zak Crawley plaudits galore in both the northern and southern hemispheres.“
Not least at Sydney Cricket Club, where the then 20-yearold spent the winter of 2018/19 playing Grade Cricket and rubbing shoulders with the likes of Steve Smith and Australia’s batting equivalent of Yoda, Neil D’Costa.
They were hardly cheering Cr...