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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sport
Cameron Ponsonby

The Harry Brook innings that showed England’s muddled minds amid Ashes carnage

There’s a political theory that people don’t vote in terms of self-interest, but in terms of their values. They are happy to hurt themselves, so long as they stay true to themselves.

England were eight for three when Harry Brook walked to the middle. Facing his first ball, he charged down the wicket at Mitchell Starc, swung, missed, and smiled.

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