Jos Buttler echoes Latham, saying Livingstone and Curran produced a fantastic partnership. “Delighted after the position we found ourselves in,” he says. “[If anything] I’d want us to go harder. It’s been a hallmark of the team to make sure we fall on the positive side. We need to do that, encourage everyone to be ultra-positive.” He almost sounds like Ben Stokes.
That’s it from me. Thanks for your company, correspondence and prescient predictions (Kim Thonger, 21st over). A soggy day turned into a fascinating contest, dominated first by Trent Boult, then by Liam Livingstone, and finally settled by a fine team effort from England’s bowlers. Do join us on Wednesday for the next instalment – and before that, on Tuesday, to see if England’s women can wrap up their series against Sri Lanka.
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Tom Latham steps up to talk to Isa Guha, who has a fearless first question: where do you think things fell apart? He takes it well. “They had a couple of great partnerships and unfortunately we weren’t able to take those last two wickets. Credit to Liam [Livingstone] for a fantastic innings.”
