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Andrew Clark

It’s a thriller at Headingley

Stuart Broad’s lethal zinger in the first over was, for English fans, a dream start in a dramatic first day’s play in the Third Test.

The primal roar at Headingley spoke of many things: England 2-0 down and desperate for a win, a riled-up crowd baying for Australian blood, and a craving for revenge after the Lords’ Test humiliation of Yorkshire favourite, Jonny Bairstow.

And in just the fifth ball of the third Ashes Test in cricket-crazy Yorkshire, against a so-far victorious Australian side, England struck.

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Andrew Clark was a senior writer at The Australian Financial Review.

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