Tim Wigmore
Tim Wigmore is concerned about the form of an England opener who is failing to cash in on a series of fine starts
Perhaps this time would be different. Mark Stoneman had endured a fraught start to the Sydney Test with several balls narrowly escaping his edge and one lackadaisical flick to mid-on almost ending with Stoneman being caught.
Yet he had responded by counterpunching with a series of pristine drives, racing along while Alastair Cook seemed near comatose.
And then it happened. Again. Stoneman had reached 24, at better than a run a ball, when he edged...