Nothing can quite prepare you for the experience of standing at the top of your mark for your first ball in Test cricket with David Warner at the other end. In that moment, in a stadium with twice as many people and five times as loud as I’d ever experienced before, all I cared about was landing it on the cut strip. Anywhere vaguely straight would do. I managed that and he pushed it to extra cover, no run, and I settled down from there.

The whole thing happened very fast. Often these days players get told the night before that they are making their debut, but it was only about an hour beforehand that Joe Root, with a huge smile on his face, came