Ross rules when push comes to shove

An hour has passed since the last act and yet the beads of sweat still pop off Mike Ross’s temple like popcorn in a microwave.

That’s your Test match intensity right there.

The perspiration on the tighthead’s brow was a sight to savour given the buckets of the stuff lost prior to these November internationals by a nation nervous over his five-week absence through injury and all the ‘will-he-won’t-he’ injury updates.