Across all formats, big scoring has been a theme – one likely to continue in the second ODI in the Netherlands on Sunday
and his hundred in the second Test, plus Tom Blundell’s 109, which made him the first New Zealand wicketkeeper to score a Test century in England, and English cricket fans have been ridiculously spoilt., there has been a similar flowering of high scores. However you want to explain it – a dry spring, flatter pitches or that dodgy early batch of Dukes balls – runs have flowed. And flowed.
On Friday at Trent Bridge, three days after Bairstow’s heroics on the same ground, Birmingham Bears broke the Blast record score with 261 for two against Notts Outlaws – Sam Hain and Adam Hose doing the business with 174 in just 70 balls. Salt also referenced Roy, who spent most of the innings watching from the dressing room, bowled by his cousin Shane Snater in just the second over of the innings for one. “I love chatting the game through with J-Roy because he’s so clear and so destructive in what he does.
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