Ben Stokes’ England continue to astonish on the cricket field following their eight-wicket thumping of New Zealand, writes Derek Pringle.
Ben Stokes scored some long-overdue runs in Christchurch Ben Stokes ’ England continue to astonish on the cricket field following their eight-wicket thumping of New Zealand, a Test team fresh from their own herculean achievement: a clean sweep over India on the latter’s home patch. Fine performances abounded in the first Test at Christchurch’s Hagley Park, the city’s cricket venue since the 2011 earthquake turned the old ground at Lancaster Park to rubble.
If this is Test cricket’s new Shangri-La, then greatness under the old order will be bestowed upon Stokes and his team if they can win the Ashes in Australia, a vanishingly rare event for England since 1980. Harry Brook celebrates his fine first-Test century Many of England’s recent selections, particularly among the bowlers, look geared towards this challenge with Carse an especially exciting find given his success on pitches usually anathema to English-style bowlers.
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