Ollie Pope backed up Ben Duckett’s record-breaking innings with a century of his own to raise the possibility of victory being achieved against Ireland inside two days at Lord’s.
Duckett’s lavish batting dominated the morning session on day two of this one-off Test, with the opener scoring a hundred in his first Test innings on home soil and showing why he is the perfect fit for Brendon McCullum and Ben Stokes’ aggressive ‘Bazball’ style as 150 were achieved off the same number of balls.
