Jason Roy is the new face in the TNT studio and, in his cuddly blue jumper, picks out Liam Livingstone as his man of the series. Alastair Cook is his foil ,with a box-fresh white T-shirt under his quarter zip.

West Indies have one obvious failure to fix from the last match, where they crucially dropped Liam Livingstone three times. As Rovman Powell put it bluntly afterwards: “Guys have to take more catches.”

England, footloose and fancy free ( even if they didn’t exactly cruise past West Indies’ 145) may take the opportunity to make a few team tweaks.

And an interview with media-shy outgoing Cricket Australia CEO Nick Hockley:

While we wait, this was the Guardian’s editorial eye on the future of cricket:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/15/the-guardian-view-on-testing-times-crickets-traditions-are-being-clean-bowled-by-cash

Preamble