When Harry Brook arrived in the England camp last week and asked Jos Buttler how exactly he should go about batting in 50-over cricket, it ought not to have been a surprising question.
Such is the scarcity of 50-over cricket in the domestic game these days that, prior to making his One-Day International bow in Bloemfontein on Friday, Brook’s last List A knock had come more than three-and-a-half years ago.
