“It was my first experience playing in England,” said Azan Awais after scoring 98 off 170 for Pakistan Shaheens at Hove last summer, his first red-ball game in England. “The conditions are challenging for an opening batter, requiring patient survival early on.”
Those were certainly the conditions he faced at Lord’s 13 months later and those patient survival skills helped him build an innings much more impressive than a quick summary of his contribution – 46 runs scored before he top-edged a pull to deep square leg – might suggest.
