Pope is usually quite positive coming in lower down but you could tell he was nervous at 3, couldn't get going at all and with Lees also not going anywhere, it meant that any momentum from Crawley's start was lost.
Bairstow has spent the last 2 months playing hit and giggle in the IPL, and the last time he faced a red ball was in the debacle in the Caribbean. So it made perfect sense picking him ahead of Harry Brook who is in the form of his life.
https://twitter.com/BurnsideNotTosh/status/1532070043714207744
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Important game of football this evening between a post-apocalyptic wasteland dependent on hand outs desperate to join the EU and Ukraine.
7:42 pm · 1 Jun 2022·
Now confirmed. Brook misses out as well, no doubt to find his way in in 2 or 3 Tests' time when he's barely picked a bat up in the meantime.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/61657181
I'd presume the "etiquette" is for him/his agent to tell Luton that he's rejecting the offer because he's signing for us, Luton put something out to that effect without naming us, then we announce he's signed.