This episode of Red Inker we talk about the incredible English summer of 2019, when Steve Smith and Ben Stokes erased all previous faux-pas by being really good at cricket. So I got in someone who wrote a book called The Comeback Summer about the entire thing, Geoff Lemon. We look at what fans and media think, how these stories and narratives are constructed. Should Warner have scored more runs in the Ashes for extra love? Would Cameron Bancroft be better at redemption if he was better at cricket? Has being really good at the sport he was really good at shown us something about the moral character of Ben Stokes? And is Steve Smith an amorphous dumpling?

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You can find Geoff Lemon on Twitter at https://twitter.com/GeoffLemonSport. His book, The Comeback Summer, can be found here: https://www.hardiegrant.com/au/publishing/bookfinder/book/the-comeback-summer-by-geoff-lemon/9781743796696[N1]

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