Newman looked to dominate an attack led by England's Chris Tremlett, who saw the left-hander continually steer the ball through or over the slip cordon and down to the boundary.
Or would you more likely grow weary of the C30 Polestar, with its daily experiments in turbo'ed torque-steer, its girlie clutch, and its wildly over-assisted steering, as numb as a well-digger's bottom?