Bowlers beating batters in WTC final focus

“The ribeye was good.” – Shukri Conrad on dinner with Stuart Broad.

Telford Vice / London

RABADA versus Hazlewood, Jansen versus Starc, Maharaj versus Lyon. If you didn’t know better you would have thought the WTC final between South Africa and Australia at Lord’s this week was a bowlers’ only affair.

Maybe, with five of the top 10 ranked bowlers in the world in the squads, most of the pre-final buzz was bound to be about the bowlers. But four of the leading 10 batters are also here, ...