At 2.36pm at the Sydney Cricket Ground today, the television cameras homed in on two masked ground staff holding leaf blowers. Their source of concern was a damp strip of turf near the bowlers’ take-off point, also of concern to the umpires. The workers could be seen shifting, like great giants, from one booted foot to the other. We were not, quite, watching grass grow, but we were watching it dry. Today he made his Test debut,

Source: The Times January 07, 2021 09:00 UTC