Ollie Pope back at bustling best in disrupted day at The Oval

The interim skipper’s seventh Test hundred, against a seventh different opponent, was, perhaps surprisingly, his first on a ground he has made his own from virtually his first day in Surrey cloth. Indeed, the statistic doing the rounds was that no player with 2,000 first-class runs on any one ground this century has scored them at a loftier average, Pope’s here now above 80 and heading north.