The case for Khawaja:

PL looks for reasons for selectors to stick with Khawaja and ignore Head's black swan efforts

Oh, Travis, what have you done?

There were all these hopeful young men out there in state land who’d dedicated their lives to the craft of opening. Like the Buddha, they renounced all worldly goods in the hope that good defence and judicious leaving are the first, essential steps on the path to a higher plane. Discarding, if you will, the inessential in search of the infinite.

Then you come along in your blue singlet, with a beer in one hand and a bat in the other, and make it look so devastatingly simple.

Appropriate really that a black swan event like this should happen in Western Australia, where Europeans encountered their first bird of that colour.

Will the Australian hierarchy be for turning on this issue? Long have they advanced the theory that the key to success is forcing the opposition attack to bowl repeat spells through long days. Test cricket is, or was, a war of attrition.

Have things changed so much in one match? Or have prouder seams, more difficult pitches and an opposition with the mindset of England signalled the need for change for some time now?