A change can be as good as a rest they say, but a trip home usually trumps both and so it proved for Ollie Pope on a disrupted opening day of the Third Test at Kia Oval.
From a batter seemingly frazzled by the novel burden of captaincy across the first two Tests of this series, here Pope was back among familiar comforts and back to his bustling best, making an unbeaten 103 in as many balls to take England to 221 for three at an early stumps.
