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I think we all agree that rolling seven dice two-thirds of the way through the series isn't a sustainable way of going about things, but it soothes me that this can still happen.

The prospect that a player *could* do something indescribable to turn a match around keeps Tests interesting even when it doesn't actually happen. The first and second Test Pakistan teams were the first ones I can remember where it was impossible to even imagine someone doing that.

When you've been picking 16-year-olds and burning them out before they're 23, there are no longer younger generations to turn to. And that's where I thought Pakistan had got to.