Ollie Pope fails again with bat but shows he has mindset to be selfless leader | Simon Burnton

Instead, as he waited for the start of the 12th over of the day, he watched Sri Lanka spread their field, indicating that they would try to tempt him into an unwise shot against a short ball, and immediately produced an unwise shot against a short ball. Asitha Fernando’s very first bumper was duly dumped into the hands of Prabath Jayasuriya at deep point. It was exasperating, certainly, but there was another way to read it: that this was his finest single moment since taking charge of the team for this series.