Ollie Pope, the Surrey batter whose audacious 196 fired England past India

Of all the things that could have happened in the second innings of this Test match – and you can never quite be sure with Bazball around – no one could have predicted that Ollie Pope would post the highest score, that he would get out on 196 playing a ramp shot trying to bring up a double century, that he would single-handedly revive England, who had been suffocating in the Hyderabad heat.

Not after he fell so tentatively in the first innings for . Not on this dusty dry pitch, against this bowling attack,