WINDIES’ MIRACLE MEN ARE IN GOOD COMPANY

DEREK PRINGLE

Butcher’s treat: Mark Butcher starred as England stunned Australia in the fourth Test at Headingley in 2001
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The romance of the underdog knows no bounds when they inflict the unexpected and trounce the Crufts’ Champion by more than a whisker, as West Indies did with England at Headingley.
Yes you heard that right – at Headingley! Of all the grounds to challenge callowness and naivety, something the West Indies were most guilty of during their three-day defeat in the opening Test at Edgbaston, this has to be the toughest.
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