What even was this? What does any of it mean? A game that might anyway have been considered meaningless by many, the final encounter of an already settled series, was rendered almost absurd by England’s towering margin of victory and the extraordinary, borderline nonsensical fashion in which it was decided.
As Jacob Bethell, who marked it with the first century of his professional career, put it: “Very good fun, yeah. Not much else to say.”
