It seems an awfully long time ago that, on the first morning of this Test, Ben Stokes strolled out for the toss and, almost before the coin had landed, blurted out: “Yep, cheers, we’ll have a bowl”.
The heavens opened before England could get that far and had forced a washout long before the death of Britain’s longest reigning monarch was announced, minutes after what would have been the scheduled close of play.
