What a start Jamie Smith has made to his England Test career. The most extraordinary thing is how comfortable he’s looked since arriving in the Test arena – in all aspects.
England’s series against the West Indies was a whitewash and Ebony Rainford-Brent thinks there will more of the same against Sri Lanka, with the hosts winning 3-0.
Former England batter Mark Ramprakash has joined a chorus of past players urging England’s top brass to bring “deep thinker” Andy Flower back into the men’s white-ball set-up following the departure of Matthew Mott.
The quality of the opposition wasn’t the highest by any means, but there was a maturity in the way England went about their business in their 3-0 whitewash of the West Indies.
At 115-5 on day one of the Edgbaston Test, having won the toss and elected to bat first on a placid surface, the West Indies threatened to be blown away as they had been five days earlier in Nottingham.