Ben Stokes looked as fit as ever on his return to bowling after a knee operation and the signs in the first Test against West Indies were positive, says Steven Finn in his latest BBC Sport column.
When the England captain was 10 overs into a spell on the evening of day two of the first Test against West Indies, my left knee and I were wincing.
This makes it even more impressive to see Stokes running in with such vigour and intent after his most recent knee surgery.Usually you can't take your eyes off the game when Stokes is involved because of the propensity for things to happen. At Lord's, when Stokes' left heel was striking the ground in his delivery stride, his left knee was bracing and locking out.
I wasn't particularly looking at the speed gun when he was bowling, I was looking at how braced that front knee was and how much he was committing to each delivery at the crease.It was that confidence in my body that eluded me and was hard to rediscover. I saw a man bowling with no such worries.
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