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Front-runners: Ashley Giles, right, and Chris Woakes
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Ashley Giles knew he was pushing at an open door when he saw Chris Woakes getting ready for bed.
In his first stint as Bears’ coach, the Ashes winner and later England ODI coach, keen to check a detail of what had happened during play that day, had knocked on the door of the hotel room the club’s analyst, Chris Arm...