Once troubled Ben Stokes now has a summer he will always own | Andy Bull

His career obituary was being written in 2017 but England’s Headingley Ashes hero has become the best version of himselfThe messiest corner of any sports writer’s life is their waste-paper bin. A lot of the time print deadlines are so tight that most of the writing is done live while the match happens, and since sport has an unfortunate way of throwing up all those late twists you end up, often as not, throwing half of it away.This is the stuff that does not even get to be the next d