A fire alarm seemed fitting cause for delay, as Moeen Ali waited to discuss his response to England’s emergency call for the first time at Edgbaston yesterday.
The ground’s evacuation was a drill, as it turned out, but the all-rounder’s return appears anything but, Moeen in line to play his first Test match since the summer of 2021 when the Ashes begin here in Birmingham on what looks a dry wicket in less than 48 hours’ time.
