CROCK CHRIS WAITS IN WINGS

Woakes set to bat one-handed if required

- By Mike Walters

CROCKED Chris Woakes was pacing up and down in his whites, his dislocated left shoulder in a sling, awaiting his Colin Cowdrey moment when the curtain fell.

Like everyone else, he will have to come back to The Oval today and find out if he is required to hit the winning run as a one-armed bandit.

It was massively frustrating for a sellout crowd that they were denied a fight to the finish yesterday, but this gripping, mad series deserves a dramatic climax - and now the weather gods have seen to it that it will get one.

If England need Woakes, it could be the most nerve-jangling climax since Cowdrey faced West Indies in the final over at Lord's in 1963 with his broken arm in plaster.