Ben Stokes has played two innings of a lifetime in the space of six weeks - the latest fuelled by a 'knock-off Nando's and two Yorkie bars'.
Even before this game, there was a century at Lord's in the second Test. When England were staring down the barrel in Leeds, bowled out for spit and with Jofra Archer out of the attack with cramp, Stokes took it upon himself to bowl 24.2 overs virtually unchanged, uphill, from the Football Stand End.
A"knock-off Nando's and two bars of Yorkie Raisin and Biscuit" were the fuel for one of the greatest innings ever played by an England Test batsman. All of this with the help of Jack Leach, who looks less like a cricketer and more like Alan from accounting. Stokes being dropped by diving third man Marcus Harris was a carbon copy of Simon Jones at Edgbaston in 2005.'Lyon has dropped the ball' - Spinner fluffs run-out chance
And there was an injustice, Stokes not given lbw to Lyon with only two to win. But whereas we felt sympathy for New Zealand and their World Cup misery, this was Australia and it was OK for them to be on the wrong end of a raw one. Only when he cut Cummins through the covers for the winning runs was the emotion released in a back-arched, both-fists-in-the-air guttural roar.He sank to his haunches, then slowly dragged himself off the field, carried by the wave of delight from all around, pausing on the boundary edge to take it all in before returning to the dressing room for the kind of welcome he last received in mid-July.
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