Sonny Baker revels in ‘brilliant, awesome’ first taste of Test cricket for England

Bowler takes two key wickets on first day at the Oval Backdrop in run-up has had ‘negligible’ effect on squad Brendon McCullum has said that he believed the second Test crowd at the Oval were about to fall in love with Sonny Baker, and England’s head coach was right. The 23-year-old ­debutant, who is playing only his 1