
England’s belief in miracles will be tested to its limits after India left them in an apparently un-winnable position heading into the final day of the second Rothesay Test at Edgbaston.
In the three years since Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum took the reins of the Test side it has become a guiding principle that their team do not do draws – a rain-ruined Ashes clash at Old Trafford the only one in 37 matches of the ‘Bazball’ era.