The complementary styles of Crawley and Duckett give England an edge, writes Phil Walker. Can they crack it in Australia?
Such was the head-spinning carnage on the second afternoon at Old Trafford that it became impossible to work out which part of the Zak Crawley-Ben Duckett experiment was the more outlandish.
Perhaps it’s that they’ve now shared five century partnerships in Test cricket, and two in the space of a month. Or maybe it’s the fact that they’ve barged into the top 15 on the list of all-time Test match opening partnerships – with those established greats Michael Vaughan and Marc...
