“I could not believe the first of his three-wicket burst that won England the game was his first bowling success of the Test. When it reverse swings, as it did here after tea, Stokes becomes a real handful,” Hussain wrote in his column for the Daily Mail.

“His bowling on Tuesday was a bit like Courtney Walsh’s. He leans a little wide of the crease and it looks like the ball is coming in from there, but at the last moment it straightens and batsman after batsman was forced into nicking off,” he added.

“That was Joe Root’s best game as England captain. The way he led, the moves he made and the way his players responded in this second Test have provided him with the perfect template for the way his England Test team should play. I have said time and again that there is no way an England team including all-time greats Root, Ben Stokes, Jimmy Anderson and Stuart Broad should lose so many games. And when other players add to the equation by doing the right things — as happened here — then there is not much wrong with England,” he added.