By Richard Edwards

Taking the plaudits: Moeen Ali claimed ten wickets in the first Test, partly due to the help from Steve Perryman, inset
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“I’LL tell you what – he has just taken 100 Test wickets as an off-spinner, I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t have taken any as a medium-pacer,” laughs former Warwickshire bowling coach, Steve Perryman, a man who England owe a large vote of thanks.
Moeen Ali’s 10 wickets at Lord’s not only brought up his century of England scalps, it also, perhaps for good, consigned his reputation as...