had to be Moeen Ali, the man of Joe Root’s first summer as Test captain, who would pick the lock that sent England hurtling towards a 177-run
Amos Youth Jersey win at Old Trafford and what was their first series win over South Africa at home in 19 years. After his 10 wickets and 96 runs at Lord’s came his hat-trick at The Oval, before the audacious counterattack with the bat here on the third evening was followed by figures of five for 69 in England’s fourth-innings surge. The shining smile that resides above the luxuriant beard has been an enduring image throughout this 3-1 defence of the Basil D’Oliviera Trophy. Moeen Ali sees off South Africa with five wickets as England win final Test Read more It was 22 minutes before the delayed interval on the fourth day in Manchester when the Brummie’s beam first broke out as, on the big screen, Hashim Amla was shown to be plumb lbw as he fiddled around his pads. His two hours of steadfast defiance with Faf du Plessis that had made a thinned-out crowd twitchy had been broken and from there the floodgates opened. As Moeen strode off the field with stump in hand, waving to supporters who had chanted his name throughout the five-wicket, 40-minute burst, he was blissfully unaware of the elite company he had joined after
http://www.officialnikejetshop.com/erin-henderson-jersey-for-sale-c-34.html becoming only the second England cricketer after Sir Ian Botham to claim 25 victims with the ball and score more than 250 runs with the willow in a series. Botham’s achievements came in the 1981 and 1985 Ashes series, two six-match affairs in a stellar career that cemented his place in English folklore. Moeen, whose personal double of 25 and 252 was produced from only four, is a wildly different character, of course, but in his understated way is neatly chiselling out his spot in the wider story. His flowing bat has had crowds purring since his debut three years ago, never more so than on the third evening here when he took the attack to South Africa in a shower of boundaries that shut down their hopes of a drawn series. But the bowling that has returned 123 wickets from 41 Tests is now truly starting to blossom. Advertisement The “second-spinner” psychology employed by Trevor Bayliss this summer
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