sightscreen

The concentration of the pair was not even broken by two brief floodlight failures and a spectator wobbling a beer snake next to the sightscreen.

If he was eager to crack on, he was not helped by a delay to the start of play when a lady in a floral dress stood behind the sightscreen.

Just last week, when Marnus Labuschagne was complaining of a reflection from the direction of the Old Trafford pavilion, it was Broad who went to speak to the spectators sitting in front of the sightscreen and persuaded them all to change seats.

Overton subsequently hit Stevens for a six that cleared the stand and smacked the 46-year-old's next delivery for a maximum over the sightscreen, but he was out in the next over, bowled by Linde, seven runs short of his second first-class century.

There’s a sightscreen about 40 metres wide in front of the dig trees, so he must have the eyes of a Boxing Day Sales shopper.