Second, the match award went to seamer Matt Henry, who is unlikely to play in Friday’s World Test Championship final against India. New Zealanders, he concluded, needed a Test team they could take pride in. But back to ‘keeping things simple’. England are towards the bottom of the pile: Root’s blunder to reprieve Young on seven was symptomatic of the malaise. As for New Zealand, it’s perfectly possible to imagine them keeping things simple all the way to becoming Test cricket’s first world champions.

Source: The Nation June 13, 2021 21:56 UTC