In a match stuffed with milestones, we waited, but not, as it turns out, for Jimmy. Not for a 700th Test wicket, but a 198th. And not from a freakish bottle-blond 41-year-old, but a freakish ginger 32-year-old, back, at last, with the ball in his hand.
On another tricky day for England, as a 3-1 series defeat drifted out of sight and 4-1 slotted into the sightlines, and just as India’s first innings looked about to launch into the stratosphere, Ben Stokes suddenly picked up the ball in time for the second over after lunch.
