Stokes plays a familiar tune

THE LEEDS REPORT: DAY TWO
James Wallace reports on a blistering second day at Headingley
By Jim Wallace

Day 2 stumps:
Australia 2nd innings 116-4 (lead by 142 runs) “It’s all gone quiet over there” sang the small quota in canary yellow. “You only sing when you’re winning!” they bellowed. The rest of the ‘West Stand’ (in the words of Alan Partridge -“they’ve rebadged it you fool”) sat in stony silence save for the occasional chunter. This wasn’t the sort of angry griping that gets caught on the breeze and echoes down to nearby Hyde Park, Burley and gurgles around the ghostly monastical ru...

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