What was the most “Bazball” moment of this wild Test match? There were a few candidates, like the final throes of day one after New Zealand had been battered into submission by Harry Brook and were forced into T20 fielding, with one slip and men scattered along the boundary rope, only to see Brook scoop over his shoulder for another audacious six.
Or perhaps it was Ben Stokes’s unnecessary declaration on 435-8, which felt more like a psychological powerplay than a strategic ploy; or his enforcing of the follow-on which, with hindsight, lost England the game.
