The sensible batting started from ball one, very few rash shots, Crawley was actually leaving the ball really well, the run rate came about because of numerous bad balls that were rightly punished, I enjoyed the way England went about the chase, common sense batting, Brook again looked the class player he his, ‘Baz ball’ was played by Wood and latterly by Woakes who I thought batted with care and intelligence.
I played against paid professionals, one allowed per team, bowling against Pakistans Ramzan was an eye opener, a tiny bit offline and the ball went to the boundary, the class difference was huge, I remember bowling against an Aussie pro ( can’t remember his name) in the 80’s, nearly bowled him first ball, after that wow you just couldn’t bowl to him, far too good for us