SUNDAY 25 AUGUST 2019Denly and Root ensure
Australia work for prize
Josh Hazlewood celebrates finally taking the wicket of Joe Denly (Getty)
ADAM COLLINS
AT HEADINGLEY
“I know it when I see it,” was the phrase used by Potter Stewart, a United States Supreme Court Justice,
when in 1964 he gave his ruling on what constituted a sufficient level of obscenity in films to breach
constitutional free speech provisions. His point is a logical one: in life, some moments need to be observed
to appreciate what is happening, for they are hard to quantify. Take when a Test Match is drifting. As with
many facets of our game, there isn’t a neat statistical category that denotes when this is occurring. You
know it when you see it.
When England’s chase of a most unlikely 359 started in predictably troubling fashion, losing both openers
when the score was 15 just after lunch, every sign pointed towards a facsimile of the day before. Maybe not