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Mark Butcher: Ben Duckett leads the way for clinical England

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We’ve become used to Ben Stokes’ side achieving the unthinkable, but what an incredible win that was at Headingley.
India dominated the majority of the first four days and yet somehow England ended up winning the match comfortably.
There’s been a lot of talk about reducing Test matches to four days. I can’t imagine a better advert for five-day Test cricket. From start to finish, the whole game was a fantastic spectacle.
It was like watching an extended highlights reel.
Ben Duckett and Zak Crawley had to play really well in the first hour of day five to keep all 10 wickets intact but, asid...

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