Shai Hope has aged a lot more than five days in this past week. He started this match a kid, but finished it a man. He made his very first Test century on Saturday, and followed it, three days later, with his second. There is very little new left for anyone to do in this sport, but this was something that had never been done before.
In the 127 years they have been playing first-class cricket at Headingley, no one – not Len Hutton, not Herbert Sutcliffe, not Geoff Boycott – had scored two centuries in a first‑class match here. Until, in the twilight of on Tuesday night, Hope squirted the ball away square off the inside edge of his bat and sprinted a quick single for his 100th run. He did not stop long to celebrate, there was still a game to win. Forty minutes later, he had done that, too. He finished 118 not out, the last of them the winning runs.
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