
A relentless Stokes removed India's half-centurion with a short-ball. ©Getty
India have run well in this series. Run well, until they've hit a wall.
Only, this wall doesn't stay still. It charges toward them: bounding in, tresses flying, arms pumping, eyes narrowing. A wall that chirps, hunts, shapes narrative. A wonderwall. Fitting really, for just four days ago, Oasis were in Manchester, playing their biggest hit. Now it was time for Ben Stokes, England's own wonderwall.
On the