In a day that combined valiant grit and unrelenting dominance, Ben Stokes and England’s openers flipped the script of

MANCHESTER: In gloomy conditions at Old Trafford, India looked like they were going to do an encore of Gabba 2021. Shardul Thakur and Washington Sundar’s gritty 48-run partnership, against the new ball,

Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett put England in charge after Ben Stokes’ five-for - Duckett fell six runs short of a century and Crawley was out for 84.