For the new England Test coach Brendon McCullum, the job will be feeling a lot bigger now than it did this time last week
ome time in the middle of the afternoon Brendon McCullum quit his position on the balcony, where he had been sitting all through the morning, and disappeared back into the pavilion. He was gone for an hour or so, long enough that you started to wonder if he had clocked that he still had time to make the quarter-to-nine flight from London Heathrow which, with a couple of changes in Dubai and Melbourne, could have had him back in New Zealand by three o’clock Monday morning.
McCullum did come back later in the day, although he seemed to slump lower and lower in his seat until you could barely see his head above the railings. even made a point of going up to pat Zak Crawley on the back after he had dropped Henry Nicholls at slip, although Broad’s hands did both creep up on to his hips when he went off to his spot in the field, which made him look like a disapproving school mistress who the misbehaving kids haven’t noticed has returned to the classroom after she had nipped out for a minute.
Meanwhile, Ben Stokes put himself through a pitilessly long spell of swing bowling, an act of self-flagellation for making the wrong decision at the toss, while Matt Potts, who isn’t quite quick enough to pull the tactic off, bashed the ball haplessly into the middle of the pitch.
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