We look at some Headingley heroics after Shai Hope's twin tons

Hope supposedly springs eternal - but Windies were just grateful he sprung twice at Headingley.

Shai Hope, having been unable to post a century in his first 11 Tests, bagged two in his 12th, becoming the first man in history to hit twin tons in a first-class match in Leeds.

Hope's fellow Barbadian, Kraigg Brathwaite, had threatened to beat him to it, but edged Moeen Ali behind shortly before tea on day five to fall for 95, having posted 134 in his first dig.

So it was left to Hope to do what the likes of Geoffrey Boycott, Sir Len Hutton and Michael Vaughan could not and bag centuries in each innings at Headingley, with the 23-year-old carding 147 and then an unbeaten 118 as Windies won a Test in England for the first time since 2000.

Hope's brilliant handling of the run chase - the tourists reaching their target of 322 in 91.2 overs, thanks also to cameos from Roston Chase (30) and the always effervescent Jermaine Blackwood (41 off 45) - ensured one of the finest modern-day Tests finished in Windies' favour.

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It wasn't a particularly fine Test for Shai's older brother Kyle, who nicked off for three in his first innings and was then run out at the non-striker's end for a duck in the second after Stuart Broad's bungled attempt to catch Brathwaite saw the ball ricochet off his leg and onto the stumps.

Still, I'm sure the senior Hope, in age if not Test experience, will appreciate that he was part of something special and would have thoroughly enjoyed watching his sibling perform the Mark Butcher role for a Windies side all but written off after their innings humbling at Edgbaston.

The Mark Butcher role? Surely, you remember Butch's Headingley heroics?

A little over 16 years before Hope struck an unbeaten ton to inspire his side to a highly improbable win in Yorkshire, Butcher - now part of the Sky Sports family - did the same as England earned a consolation victory in the fourth Ashes Test in 2001.

Butcher had spoken about the need for an England batsman to stand up and be counted prior to day five, with the hosts set 315 for victory having been crushed by an innings and 118 runs, seven wickets, and eight wickets respectively in the first three Tests.

The left-hander was that batsman, scoring 173 not out - the third of eight Test hundreds he would go on to score and surely his finest - in his fourth match since being recalled as England triumphed by six wickets.

Usman Afzaal - I bet you'd forgotten about him - was with Butcher at the end, after the Surrey star had shared a crucial stand of 181 with Nasser Hussain and then 75 with Mark Ramprakash.

Butch, Nas and Ramps, but alas not Afzaal, were on the field three years earlier, though, when England sealed another memorable victory in Leeds - Darren Gough's 6-42 ensuring South Africa were dismissed for 195 chasing 219, with the hosts' 23-run triumph earning them a 2-1 series win.

Butch bagged his first Test ton opening the batting with Michael Atherton and then Nas was at his doughty best with a 341-ball 94 in the second innings, after Angus Fraser had taken 5-42.

But it was Gough's burst with the ball and the dubious lbw decision that last man Makhaya Ntini fell victim to, one of many throughout the match, that the Test is best remembered for.

Gough, on his home track, ripped through the Proteas' top order with the scalps of Gary Kirsten, Daryll Cullinan and Gerhardus Liebenberg - the latter whom Sky Sports Bob Willis dubbed a walking wicket - as the visitors crumbled to 27-5.

Jonty Rhodes and Brian McMillan rallied with a sixth-wicket stand of 117 but Gough was not to be denied, ousting Rhodes and Mark Boucher before yelling to have Ntini trapped leg before. He needn't have been so vociferous, with umpire Javed Akhtar quick to raise his finger.

South Africa were angry with the decision, feeling the ball was not straight enough, and Gough admitted as much when speaking to Cricinfo in 2012. "As soon as it hit him, I thought it was dead out. Hitting middle and leg. But when I watch it now, I feel it might have missed leg."

Thank goodness DRS wasn't in operation back then. Barnsley-born Gough would have been in tears!

The waterworks were, therefore, left for the Burnley-born James Anderson some 16 years later, when he was caught from the penultimate ball of the match as Sri Lanka claimed a series-sealing 100-run victory in Leeds in 2014, their first series success in England since 1998.

Anderson had provided tremendous resistance, lasting 20 overs with Moeen Ali, who had notched his first Test century, an unbeaten 108, as England looked set to bag an unlikely draw, but he then fended to leg gully and broke down at the post-match presentation, emceed by Michael Atherton.

The seamer's England Man of the Series award must have felt like scant consolation but he had a beaming smile at Headingley against the same opposition two years later as he scooped 10-for in an innings and 88-run win.

Willis was the seamer possessed at Leeds in 1981, however, with his stunning 8-43 skittling Australia for 111 after Sir Ian Botham's boundary-laden 149 not out had seen England launch a stirring comeback after being asked to follow on.

Willis came on at the Kirkstall Lane End with Australia, chasing 130, looking strong at 56-1 but then tore through the Baggy Greens with a devastating spell, including dismissing Kim Hughes and Graham Yallop for ducks and then ousting top scorer John Dyson as he 'hoovered' up the last five wickets.

A blown-away Australia slumped to an 18-run defeat at a ground where they still hold the record for the highest successful run chase - Windies' Class of 2017 now second on that Leeds list.

Don Bradman's Invincibles reached their target of 404 for the loss of just three wickets, opener Arthur Morris scoring 182 and The Don finishing unbeaten on 173.

But who needs Bradman when you've got Hope?

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