I feel like I'm growing into the role, says England captain Jos Buttler ©AFP
Jos Buttler strode out of his press conference at the MCG on Saturday fuelled by an urgency that suggested he was late for an appointment. His strong, straight steps left no doubt he was required somewhere else.
He neither paused nor stopped, and needed maybe 10 seconds to go from his seat behind the microphones to the doors of the lift that would take him towards England's last training session before the T20 World Cup final against Pakistan on Sunday.
Babar Azam, who had been and gone by the time Buttler arrived, took a different approach. After his presser he rose and moved towards the exit - and was instantly besieged by reporters wanting a photograph, a word, a moment with him. He was less a man on his way out of the room than a sainted icon at the epicentre of a religious procession.
Babar seems to bear this aspect of the job - the vocation? the calling? - of captaining Pakistan with patience and grace. Indeed it was up to security staff and ICC minders to extricate him from the clamour. Babar himself looked like he had all day to hang out and chat. That might have been true, because, and as was the case before their semi-final against New Zealand in Sydney on Wednesday, Pakistan did not train on Saturday.
But, as England will probably know and New Zealand found out the hard way when they
