With the brakes on, Archer

IT does not matter who is charging in, Rishabh Pant will always try to do Rishabh Pant things.

- By Andy Dunn

In this instance, he was trying to reverse sweep Jofra Archer, a ball after he had slog-swept England's marquee fast bowler to the boundary.

Had Archer been operating at 90mph-plus, Pant who had to leave the field on a golf buggy after being hit on the foot by Chris Woakes would probably have done exactly the same.

But Archer was not operating at 90mph-plus.

This was a day of hard graft for him, a day when there was never going to be an over of six 90mph-plus deliveries, as there was at Lord's.

On a dry, largely unresponsive pitch, it is unlikely Archer was ecstatic with Ben Stokes' decision to bowl first, as predictable as it was.