Banton’s century leads England to emphatic win in second ODI amid Australian soap opera

As much as the sandpaper soap opera continued to deal in alternative facts on Sunday, recollections of this second one-day international are unlikely to differ. For Tom Banton and Gus Atkinson, architects of an emphatic 135-run victory for England that levelled the series, it was unquestionably a match to remember.Banton was sublime after England were asked to bat first, unfurling…