England’s Fab Four come together to leave West Indies on the ropes | Andy Bull

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Anderson, Broad, Archer and Woakes are too good for tourists as they make most of tricky pitch and cloudy day

This is an old story, but a good one, and worth telling again. Back in the late 1980s, Boris Becker beat Andre Agassi in the first three matches they played against each other. Agassi’s problem was he just could not figure out how to break Becker’s serve. He ended up getting a little bit obsessed and started watching video tapes of his service games on loop to figure out his secret.

Then one day he finally cracked it. He realised that Becker had a tell. Before he tossed the ball, he would stick his tongue out. When he was serving wide towards the tramline, his tongue would come out the left side of his mouth. After that, Agassi beat him nine times in 11 matches.

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