How typical that after a winter worrying about batting luxuries and a spring spent fretting over a diminishing but still enviable wealth of seam reserves, it is England’s cupboard least well stocked that, as the summer begins, appears to have run bare.
The puzzling over where Jonny Bairstow would slot back in was billed as the proverbial nice problem to have; scares over the fitness of James Anderson and Ollie Robinson set, hopefully, to prove false alarms; but news of Jack Leach’s stress fracture does not fit either brief.
