
Zak Crawley repaid the faith of Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum with a sensational hundred on day two of the Fourth Ashes Test and admitted: “I wouldn’t be playing under anyone else”.
Both Stokes and McCullum have been staunch defenders of Crawley since taking over leadership of the Test side at the start of last summer, with the opener one of three ever-presents, alongside Joe Root and the captain himself.