PETER HAYTER

If Colin Graves, Tom Harrison and those at the England and Wales Cricket Board pushing for acceptance of their Twenty 20 vision needed further evidence of what it might do for the game in this country, Ben Stokes, Jonny Bairstow and Roelof van der Merwe provided it this week with dancing girls and flashing bails on.
It goes without saying that Stokes’ brilliant 103 from 63 balls for Rising Pune Supergiant against Gujarat Lions in the Indian Premier League, the England all-rounder leading his side from 10-3 to victory by five wickets with one ball to spare, had to be se...