Classier Terrace claws way back into good books

ENGLAND'S hopes of winning the Test match had looked dead and buried.

- JEREMY CROSS

But the Western Terrace (above) remained alive and kicking.

And I'm relieved to report that one of the most notorious stands in the whole of sport was on its best behaviour. For a change!

Unlike the England team, who were struggling. Up until a gripping fightback, Ben Stokes & Co had threatened to take fans on a trip back to the 1990s, when England couldn't win a one-ticket raffle, let alone a Test match.

But thankfully those on the Terrace didn’t revert back to their bad old days as well.

In 1996 ECB bosses awaited a report into crowd trouble during the second Test between England and Pakistan.

The hooligan behaviour was so bad, then-Yorkshire president Sir Lawrence Byford went into the stand in a bid to tame the troublemakers.