
On Friday night in Bloemfontein, Jason Roy’s “horrible year” - one he would later reveal has been plagued by self-doubts - got an awful lot better.
Struggling for runs since last summer, axed from the England side that went on to win the T20 World Cup and, perhaps, playing to keep his place in the 50-over equivalent, at last, everything clicked, to the tune of a quite superb 79-ball century in the First ODI defeat to South Africa.