It was almost with a touch of irony that in the era of attack and Bazball, the player of the series would be the ever-reliable Chris Woakes, who had so often been left out of the side because of the ever-present James Anderson and Stuart Broad.
Woakes himself was left to admit that it is not often you get what you’re “destined for”, but it felt like it had to be that way. The reliable seam and swing bowling from a 34-year-old was exactly what England needed to fight back from 2-0 down to draw the series.
