Stuart Broad said England feel ‘really positive that we’ve got ourselves back in the game’ after Ben Stokes led their fightback in the first Test
After reducing South Africa from 138 for one to 210 for six – with Broad taking the last of those wickets, his 100th at Lord’s – a freewheeling partnership of 72 between Keshav Maharaj and Marco Jansen returned the tourists to the ascendancy.
“Obviously we’re going to have to have a couple of great days, but we’ve proved this summer that anything can happen and we feel really positive in the changing-room that we’ve got ourselves back in the game.” “He carries an inspirational style about what he does,” Broad said. “We needed a couple of breakthroughs. The bouncer to get rid of [Erwee] was a really big wicket, it gave us a bit of energy and got the crowd going a bit. And that’s what those sorts of players do – they put bums on seats because you want to see these guys, the theatre they bring, and I thought Stokes brought great theatre in that middle period after tea.
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