“There’s been a bit of chaos,” England coach Brendon McCullum said with a forced smile and a tone of grim understatement after a week that all involved would wish to forget. As in politics, seven days can be a long time in cricket but one can scarcely remember a situation quite as mundane yet manic, rumbling on as it has in the time since a midnight curfew was broken in the hours that followed England’s first Test victory at Lord’s.

“There’s been a bit of chaos,” England coach Brendon McCullum said with a forced smile and a tone of grim understatement after a week that all involved would wish to forget. As in…

It is rare to make five changes after winning by more than a hundred runs, but this has not been a normal week between Tests for England