DEREK PRINGLE

There wasn’t much to be gleaned from England’s two 50-over matches against Ireland, which Eoin Morgan’s team won at a canter. Blown away in the first, at Bristol, Ireland were almost in the game during the second one at Lord’s, though almost doesn’t really cut it for a team that wants to use its one-day international status as a springboard to Test cricket.
For England, the best and most heartening news was the return of Mark Wood from another operation on a troublesome left ankle. Wood has gas (speed), or at least he does when ...