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How wily old Woakes had Australia on a string in the fourth Ashes Test

It was an aural memory that Chris Woakes took from Headingley in the last Test. “The feeling of that roar, the Western Terrace going mad … if you could bottle that up forever and come back to it, you would,” he said then. Over a few hours on the first day of the fourth Test at Manchester, Woakes had more to add to that mix-tape. The loudest cheers was understandably for Stuart Broad’s 600th Test wicket, but the jailbreak roars were reserved for Woakes’s accomplishments: nicking out David Warner who looked fluent for the first time in the series, knocking out Cameron Green, who despite his struggles was building a 65-run partnership, a peach to take out Australia’s best batsman Mitchell Marsh, who was threatening to hand control to Australia with that stand with Green, and a tempter outs...