The release last month of the third season of The Test, Amazon’s fly-on-the-wall documentary about Australia’s cricket team, provoked a re-watch of the most compelling sequence of its first.
It is Lord’s in the summer of 2019, the Second Ashes Test, and Jofra Archer, on debut, bowling heat. Marnus Labuschagne recalls clocking the scoreboard as it flashed up 96mph (“Sheesh, that’s quick!”). Nathan Lyon tries desperately to dry his clamming hands (“Someone’s turned the taps on!”) as he prepares for the unenviable task of batting next.
