![]() He has consistently failed in certain series - in India, or even in England’s last series of the winter in New Zealand - but this summer he has almost always given England some sort of start, and frequently fliers. He may have scored only one century but, for the first time in his career, Crawley has been consistent - consistently successful, that is. The hand-eye coordination which has made him the safest slip-catcher in this series has come to his aid when batting too. ![]() Crawley in particular has done alright, especially for one with such a pronounced technical idiosyncracy as his dominant right hand which makes it awkward, if not impossible, for him to play a straight ball with a perfectly vertical bat. ![]() In the course of this tumultuous series Australia’s opening batsmen have faded, while England’s have surpassed most expectations. But who has touched it ever before in Test cricket without playing himself in, off the very first ball of his side’s innings? In between times Crawley scored more runs than any opening batsman in an Ashes series, from either country, for the last 30 years, 480 in total.Īt odd moments a class batsman touches perfection, such as when Joe Root drives or reverse-ramps a fast ball for six. ![]() Again not a fielder moved and, again, many a jaw dropped at this audacity. In his last outing of this series Crawley again creamed the first ball, of England’s second innings, through the covers. ![]() It seems an age ago, yet it was only six weeks, when Zak Crawley seized upon the first ball of this Ashes series and creamed it through the Edgbaston covers. ![]()
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