Ben Stokes’ Ashes gamble on Moeen Ali might have backfired. Ali took himself out of the England attack and off the field in a critical period of the first test against Australia on Monday because of a blistered spinning finger that has caused him grief for much of the match at Edgbaston. Moments earlier, he had served up a poor over — a full toss then two short balls, the second of which Marnus Labuschagne carved to the boundary — to highlight the issue he was having in his first test for nearly two years after coming out of retirement in cricket’s longest format.
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