Zak Crawley undone by own insecurities on most brutal of stages

A scrambled seam was all too much for a scrambled mind. Zak Crawley’s indecision had been revealed the ball before when an inswinger from the left-armer Neil Wagner had left him looking to leave, as he had done with his first two balls, and then hastily trying to play the ball. He was fortunate that it missed everything.

Now sensing that uncertainty, Wagner cleverly pushed the fourth ball Crawley faced across him. It was on a good length too. Crawley went to play at it and then realised it was a ball that he should be leaving. It was too late. He could not leave it. His indeterminate prod produced an edge that flew to third slip. Crawley was gone for a duck, after having