The ball from Moeen Ali spins sharply and thuds against the roll of Virat Kohli’s pad. Kumar Dharmasena shakes his head. Joe Root unhesitatingly calls for a review. It’s day four of the fourth Test at the Ageas Bowl, and we’re about to embark on a journey through the laws of physics, the nature of knowledge and justice, Descartes, John Stuart Mill and cricket’s complex and shifting relationship with doubt. And to think you only came here for the bat adverts.

So perhaps the real moral here is that doubt is intrinsic to cricket, however many fancy gizmos you stack up. Perhaps even the notion that there is such a thing as a ‘correct’ and ‘incorrect’ decision needs to be questioned. Perhaps, instead, there is not one truth but many, and that to reach that realisation is not to give up on the search for truth, but simply to admit the immutable subjectivity of our existence.

Plus, Kohli was definitely out.