After more than three hours of pulverising everything that England's demoralised bowlers could throw at him, Travis Head was finally persuaded to play a dead bat at Trent Bridge.
It was a journalist's post-match question about whether Australia's batter of the moment, fresh from his match-winning ton against England in the first ODI, might now be interested in making the transition from white-ball destroyer to Test match opener that prompted Head's sudden outbreak of caution.
