World Test Championship Final Report Card, Day One

Featuring swaggering bravado, soddin' Bazball, clarifying The Simpsons and solving problems

Swaggering Bravado
Grade: C

Australia’s warm-up for the Ashes and India’s warm-down from the IPL continues with the World Test Championship Final, a contest to determine once and for all, which is the greatest Test cricket nation. (By ‘once’, I mean ‘it happened previously, but New Zealand won it, so we should probably just ignore that’ and by ‘for all’, …