SKIPPER TELLS 'EM TO MAN UP

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But there are serious question marks over the ability of his England team to react to the big occasion and time is running out for them to find an answer.

Stokes did his best to instil some fighting spirit on the fourth and final day at the Gabba, batting for almost four hours in a doomed show of defiance that put a brittle top order to shame, and had strong words afterwards.

“There is a saying that we have said a lot here, that Australia is not for weak men,” he said after seeing the hosts chase down a tiny target of 65 with eight wickets intact.