Raina moves outside leg, Stokes follows him with a length delivery and bang – the ball is thrown back from wide long-on boundary. He is on 34, a mini comeback of sorts is looking good, when that urge returned. Raina not only stays back inside the crease but starts to hang on his back foot as Stokes runs in. Furthermore, he begins to stutter towards the off.
It isn’t a confident shuffle, more a stumble that gives the impression he was perhaps expecting a short one as retribution from the bowler for the big shot before. Instead, Stokes comes with a scorcher of a yorker. The accuracy is deadly, the choice of yorker is a surprise which is further accentuated by the leg-stump target. Raina’s slow but early stutter across the stumps did him in.
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