Mayes illustrates perfect sense of timing

There's a delay on the line, and some of the 18-year-old's responses are delivered in the kind of sound quality you might have expected on a long-distance call long before WhatsApp was invented.

It's in sharp contrast to the clarity of approach and speed of execution that typified Mayes' show-stopping 191 off just 117 balls against Scotland in Harare on Wednesday.

His strike rate was a scarcely believable 163.25 as England piled on both agony and runs against a powerless Scotland.