Kraigg Brathwaite channels idol in heroic six-hour stand to revive West Indies | Andy Bull

Opener displays shades of Shivnarine Chanderpaul with stubborn resistance to England’s attack – punctuated by the odd flourish – on way to sixth Test century

Newsprint never tastes so very good, but a lot of people at Headingley were happy enough to eat their words on Saturday. West Indies, written off here, there and everywhere else, are in charge of the second Test. Kraigg Brathwaite and Shai Hope put on 246 runs for the fourth wicket. It was West Indies’ sixth-highest partnership in England, their best here in Leeds since Garry Sobers and Seymour Nurse put on 265 in 1966.

For once, then, these West Indies players find themselves namechecked alongside some of the famous men that came before them without suffering in the comparison.

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