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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Jonathan Liew at Headingley

Zak Crawley should be a perfect fit for this England but offers only high farce

A despondent Zak Crawley trudges off
A despondent Zak Crawley trudges off at the end of another slapdash innings in which he may have played himself out of the team. Photograph: Mike Egerton/PA

And frankly, were we not entertained? There were times during Zak Crawley’s blustery, tempestuous second innings at Headingley when you wondered whether we were watching a kind of brilliant performance art, perhaps even a sort of interpretative dance in which a 24-year-old man attempts to express the full gamut of human emotion via edges alone.

Either way you could argue that there is no player in this all-singing England team fulfilling his brief more perfectly than Crawley.

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