JONNY BAIRSTOW and debutant Jamie Overton put together an astonishing 200plus partnership to rescue England from the brink of catastrophe.
Whether the punters had enjoyed plenty of hospitality during the day, or whether they left the ground stone cold sober, they would all have been wondering, ‘What the hell have we just watched?’
It was that kind of day. From the depths of despair at 55-6, rather than be cowed by the situation, Bairstow took up the fight to record back-to-back centuries for the first time following his Trent Bridge heroics.
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