
At the end of the first day's play here, Harry Brook volunteered the rather endearing nugget that he had used the break between Tests earlier in the Ashes to go on his first summer holiday since the age of seven. Destination? Ibiza.
Realising what he had just said and probably imagining the back-page mock-ups of him in Ocean Beach, Gray-Nicolls in one hand and Grey Goose in the other, Brook rushed to caveat.