Duckett scores 113 as hosts hit back at Trent Bridge
Before the start of this deciding third Test against New Zealand, Brendon McCullum was overheard saying he was about to learn a fair bit about his England team.
After a Lord’s surface that saw seamers fishing with dynamite, and then the semi-skimmed XI selected for the Oval, no one quite knew whether a flat pitch would rekindle the aggressive batting of the previous four years, or if a winter of mixed messages from up top had stifled their ambitions.
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