The Ashes: England continue to back Zak Crawley despite numbers not adding up

Cricket is a game obsessed with numbers and Zak Crawley's make for fascinating reading. They are not what you would expect from a Test opener to have played 60 games.

An average below 31 - Crawley's dipping to 30.96 after his loose drive-induced Perth pair - and 44 single-figure dismissals in 109 knocks. In 41 per cent of his innings, he has scored nine or less.

But England don't pick Crawley because of his numbers. They pick him for moments, for his aggression, for what he can do to world-class bowlers at his best.