PETER HAYTER

Officials of the England and Wales Cricket Board have a history of bringing dead stories back to life. Remember Colin Graves, shortly after his appointment to the post of ECB chairman, opening the long-shut door that had separated Kevin Pietersen from the England team?
So for Tom Harrison, their chief executive, and director of England Cricket Andrew Strauss to indicate this week that Ben Stokes may play in the Ashes after all neatly fits into an established pattern, in this case throwing an apparently resolved situation back into confusion and, in the proces...