Ben Stokes has set
England on their feet but Smith will return at Old Trafford to do potentially the same for AustraliaThe only worse cricketing humiliation than being bowled out for 67 must be losing to a team that you bowled out for 67. While all of England looked around in disbelief after that Ben Stokes heist at Headingley, the
Australian Test team would have been staring blankly at the dressing-room walls, trying to make some sense of how exactly that one got away.
Three teams previously have been rolled for such a low score and won: all of those cases were in the 1800s, when a hard day’s bowling was probably tended to by medicinal leeches or a sacrifice to the Sun God. Then there was this, the summer of 2019, which makes sense given the darkly absurd timeline that our world appears to have lurched down.