Headingley is the land of Hope and glory now for Windies

AS STUNNING as this turnaround from West Indies was following their humiliation at Edgbaston a week earlier, England know it wouldn’t have been possible without their own shortcomings being brutally exposed.

By Chris Stocks at Headingley

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Credit for that must clearly go to West Indies, who defied history to pull off a stunning final-day chase of 322 thanks to the brilliance of Shai Hope’s historic unbeaten 118.
No team other than the great Australians of 1948, Don Bradman’s Invincibles, have ...

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