England captain Ben Stokes’ latest dashing counter-attack kept his side’s Ashes hopes alive in the third Test at Headingley on Friday. 

Trailing 0-2 in the best-of-five series, England were in danger of conceding a large first-innings lead when they slumped to 142-7 at lunch on the second day in reply to Australia’s 263. But all-rounder Stokes’s brilliant 80 took them to 237 all out, a deficit of just 26 runs, despite Australia captain Pat Cummins’s fine return of 6-91.