Mirror Sport – The Ashes … And glory

Mark Wood’s fearless belligerence epitomises Bazball and keeps Ashes alive

The Mirror Sport says Twelve runs needed to avert humiliation and keep the Ashes series alive.

Three wickets in hand but Pat Cummins – the world’s top-ranked fast bowler – is charging in, well and truly fired up.

Mark Wood, playing his first Test match of the year, is on strike and the silence churns the stomach.

The whole of Headingley knows what is coming. The whole of Headingley knows it is going to be short and quick.

So does Wood.

It is so predictable, he could duck beneath it – after all, there is no rush and the dozen required for victory can be knocked off in ones and twos.

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