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Broad and Woakes elevate England hopes at Old Trafford

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erhaps it was inevitable that Stuart Broad would attain this milestone bowling from the top named after the one different Englishman to have taken 600 Test wickets, having blazed his personal vibrant path, paradoxically, in James Anderson’s wake all through a lot of his profession.

But on this event, with solar excessive within the Manchester sky, the Old Trafford Pavilion, fittingly, solid no shadow, Broad having this summer time stepped into clear floor because the chief of England’s assault, a mantle he has so usually grasped within the warmth of Ashes cricket. His 600th Test scalp, that of Travis Head straight after tea, was additionally a document 149th in opposition to Australia, 34 greater than Anderson, yet one more than Ian Botham and yet one more produced at a essential juncture in a significant Ashes recreation.

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