Hugely tentative... or supremely professional? Crawley batted like a man committed to going on, and on, and on: Stewart came in a flailed like a man convinced he couldn't last and just rode his luck to the inevitable delivery.

For all his bravado... Stewart never graduated much beyond a schoolboyish obsession with putting bat to ball. He could manage to leave balls that demanded to be left... but he was never at ease unless playing cricket as if it were a poor man's baseball.

Crawley's career since that successful tour has gone from strength to strength: few batsmen have been as difficult to dislodge in recent years, or as good at turning solid starts into matchwinning knocks.

Shame it hasn't been with England