Aiden Markram and Temba Bavuma didn't have the pleasure of finishing off what they started in the World Test Championship final at Lord's.

Aiden Markram's long walk back to the pavilion at the end of his epic, trophy-seizing century, ought by rights to have been one of the proudest, most self-reflective moments of his life. With a mere six runs still needed for World Test Championship glory,

Markram is an aching puzzle. He has every attribute to be a top of the line batter as even Virat Kohli was once dazzled by his skillsets.