John Stern reports on England’s spectacular one-day arrival Down Under with a typically cavalier batting display

Focus: Joe Root is clearly benefiting from being out of the captaincy limelight, scoring a fine unbeaten 91

That’s a Starc delivery,” crowed the veteran Australian TV commentator, Bill Lawry, about one of Mark Wood’s leather-sniffing snorters during the first one-dayer at the MCG.
There could be no greater praise from a man who has the reputation of a partisan Aussies cheerleader (and never more so than when talking up his fellow ...