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68th over: England 227-2 (Root 87, Lawrence 1) Dan Lawrence gets off the mark with a Crawley-ish shot, going onto off stump and flicking to fine leg. So Crawley made 121 off 216 balls, with 16 fours, and his partnership with Root was 201 off 57.1 overs. It was England’s fifth stand of 200+ in the past four years.
The breakthrough! And it’s a great piece of bowling. Jason Holder sees Crawley itching to press on and goes into one-day mode himself, delivering a looping slower-ball yorker that sneaks under Crawley’s bat and clatters into the stumps.
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