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Test cricket is the best sport there is. Only Test cricket can do this, and the memories stick for a lifetime in a way that maybe those in other sports don't always achieve. Stokes gets a kind of sporting immortality of reputation no matter what he does on the field after this.
Imagine kids watching this and becoming addicted to Test cricket for life.
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Before that ball brushed the front pad of Stokes it was tracking towards leg, possibly the outside of leg stump. Hawkeye showed it hitting middle and leg. I don't think the technology accounted for that feather off his pad, which i think the umpire did.
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Stokes played the worst shot of the entire series in the first innings yet still won the game pretty much single-handedly. And he bowled brilliantly second time round too, having been similarly poor first innings.
One of those days when Test cricket doesn't feel like so much of a team sport. Also, one of those days when Test cricket feels like the greatest thing in the world.
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I have seen the future, and there will be at least one journalist this week who'll shat out a column which ties in this remarkable Ashes performance to Brexit and standing tall, dunkirk spirit, white cliffs of Dover and that. As the vision fades, I see Johnson's face photoshopped onto Ben Stokes celebratory posture. Oh it burns, quick, piss into my eyes.
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Astounding stuff, I watched the last few hours in a box at Spurs and it did make the subsequent football game seem a bit prosaic.
It's silly to make predictions in this ridiculous rollercoaster series but I think that the the Aussies may be broken now.
The way they threw away the chance to secure the urn with their fielding and reviews in the final hour will haunt them as well as the fear of what else Stokes can achieve.
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I agree. It must be psychologically shattering. Plus Archer, maybe Anderson, to bring further ghosts into their heads.
Meanwhile, not to be outdone, India have WI at 47/7 in Antigua with Bumrah on 5-7.Last edited by Satchmo Distel; 25-08-2019, 19:30.
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Not obviously, but you don't know unless you give them a go. Buttler prior to this summer had been in decent nick, Denly I don't think is good enough but he probably has earned a reprieve given the absence of alternatives. But Roy has to be dropped. His whole shtick is being aggressive and he can't do that under the pressure he's under.
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Congrats, Etienne. As you say, the odds for England wins frequently are rather poor, meaning this extraordinary win has yielded somewhat ordinary winnings.
I hope they have the confidence to drop Roy after this performance. No blame, no bad feelings. But someone else has to come in. I don't have any useful suggestions, though. Any half-decent opener, is my usual answer to the question.
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- Oct 2011
- 26998
- Cambridgeshire
- Ipswich (convert)
- Those chocolate-coated ring-shaped ones you get at Christmas
Cricket, bloody hell.
Missed all the fun as it happened as we were at a festival this weekend, but watched it on C5 this evening. Just incomprehensible. Incomparable.
And, yeah, still not convinced by the team...
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