“You want to get a Test hundred against Harry Brook?” Ben Stokes asked Ravindra Jadeja.

“F---ing hell Washy, get on with it. Get on with it mate!” Brook goaded Washington Sundar.

Ben Stokes (left) and Ravindra Jadeja exchange words at the end of the match.Credit: Getty Images

“How long do you need, an hour?” complained Ben Duckett.

“You shake our hands and it’s done. You want the hundred, that’s what you want. Embarrassing,” concluded Zak Crawley.

Another comprehensive moral victory for England, then.

India’s refusal to shake hands when Stokes offered the draw with an hour to go at Old Trafford, allowing Jadeja and Sundar to reach their centuries, sparked the cricketing equivalent of a collective tantrum from England’s Bazballers.

It was an unsavoury scene, as Stokes handed the ball to Brook to bowl right arm rubbish, the fielders offered only the most half-hearted of chases, and the snide comments mounted. Jadeja’s hundred, followed by Sundar’s, were only barely acknowledged by their hosts, and the bickering continued after India did accept the draw.

India’s tour of England has been a highly watchable affair, and now goes to the Oval with the series........

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