West Indies Tour Of England News

Ben Stokes is superhuman. Repeat after me, Ben Stokes is superhuman. If he’s not, how would you justify what he just did? After bowling a gruelling seven-over spell full of effort balls, Stokes, after being hit down the ground, ran all the way to long-off all by himself to try and prevent a four.

They say, in Cricket, there are two types of leaves. The first one is the kind that we’ve been accustomed to thanks to the likes of Steve Smith and Labuschagne. And the second one, erm, was displayed today by Roston Chase, whose error in judgement resulted in Broad trapping him plumb in front.

For a brief while in this Test - after multiple DRS decisions went against him - it looked like Kemar Roach was never going to end his wicket drought that had started in the India series last year. But as fate had it, of all people, it had to Ben Stokes who finally ‘helped’ him break the drought.