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England Cricket Team Summer 2019 -ICC World Cup and Ashes etc

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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,049
    SIR BENJAMIN STOKES.
    It was on the cards anyway. Think he just fast-tracked it.

    There aren't enough superlatives in the dictionary fo that innings.
  • rina
    rina Posts: 2,334
    Stokes now 1/3 for spoty, started the day at 6/4 which is pretty much where he's been since the WC. just prior to the WC there was 50/1 available
  • Having now stopped blubbing, I'd like to add that I'm SO proud to have seen a Kent man playing a significant part in winning this Test. 

    Well done, Joe. The platform that you & your namesake  built for Stokesy & co to continue was of huge importance.

    Long may you continue to enjoy success with England AND with your county.
  • rina
    rina Posts: 2,334
    Stokes being interviewed by the BBC, asked about Leach's 1 not out

    'he's got serious bollocks to stand up and do that'
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,881
    What is the most runs a last wicket pair have scored to win a match? 
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,816
    Come on Ben, you won us the World Cup final. Now you’ve got to keep us in the Ashes.
    Unbelievable...
  • rina
    rina Posts: 2,334
    MrOneLung said:
    What is the most runs a last wicket pair have scored to win a match? 
    78 I think for sri lanka earlier this year
  • That was incredible.

    I walked about 5 miles pacing up and down with nerves.

    Amazing from Ben Stokes.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,973
    edited August 2019
    MrOneLung said:
    What is the most runs a last wicket pair have scored to win a match? 
    78 Sri Lanka v Saffers so not quite this one but close!

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  • rina
    rina Posts: 2,334
    rina said:
    MrOneLung said:
    What is the most runs a last wicket pair have scored to win a match? 
    78 I think for sri lanka earlier this year
    The 14th highest is 2. It doesn't happen often

    http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/stats/index.html?class=1;filter=advanced;innings_number=4;orderby=fow_score;partnership_wicketmin1=10;partnership_wicketval1=partnership_wicket;result=1;template=results;type=fow;view=innings
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,158
    Stokes hit 75 of the 76 runs needed...Must not forget the part Leach played either, even though he only scored 1...
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,158
    Last wicket I meant obviously.
  • That was the most amazing innings I have ever seen, well done Ben Stokes, test cricket don't you love it
  • ashley
    ashley Posts: 531
    Hopefully Ben Stokes will never have to buy a drink in his lifetime ever again 
  • supaclive
    supaclive Posts: 6,516
    I TAKE IT ALL BACK ABSOLUTELY SENSATIONAL BEN STOKES I LOVE THEE
  • Chef_addick
    Chef_addick Posts: 2,196
    Atherton summed it up well just now, it went from a match we shouldn't have lost after day 1 to a match we shouldn't have won this morning.
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,547
    Apparently Wikipedia now describes the Ashes as a cricket contest between Australia and Ben Stokes.

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  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,816
    Apparently Wikipedia now describes the Ashes as a cricket contest between Australia and Ben Stokes.
    Surely Smith, Smith's sub and Stokes?
  • Apparently Wikipedia now describes the Ashes as a cricket contest between Australia and Ben Stokes.
    Surely Smith, Smith's sub and Stokes?
    Beat me to it
  • Anybody remember when @Leuth said Ben Stokes doesn't get into a world XI earlier this year.... :-)

    That's absolutely astonishing what we've just witnessed. 

    I don't have the vocabulary to accurately describe that innings. That's no slight on me, though - there is no body on the planet who does.
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,232
    ashley said:
    Hopefully Ben Stokes will never have to buy a drink in his lifetime ever again 
    I hope he never has an alcoholic drink again until he retires.


  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,816
    Anybody remember when @Leuth said Ben Stokes doesn't get into a world XI earlier this year.... :-)

    That's absolutely astonishing what we've just witnessed. 

    I don't have the vocabulary to accurately describe that innings. That's no slight on me, though - there is no body on the planet who does.
    Is describing by saying it's indescribable a paradox?
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,816
    Apparently Wikipedia now describes the Ashes as a cricket contest between Australia and Ben Stokes.
    Surely Smith, Smith's sub and Stokes?
    Beat me to it
    @Todds_right_hook well you could at least give me a like then.
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,344
    Anybody remember when @Leuth said Ben Stokes doesn't get into a world XI earlier this year.... :-)

    That's absolutely astonishing what we've just witnessed. 

    I don't have the vocabulary to accurately describe that innings. That's no slight on me, though - there is no body on the planet who does.
    Ben Stokes may be the highest Test run scorer this year, but he's no James Hildreth...
  • rina said:
    Stokes being interviewed by the BBC, asked about Leach's 1 not out

    'he's got serious bollocks to stand up and do that'
    When he hit and ran for the run my first reaction was WTF, dont get cocky

    Certainly got away with it with that panic run which the Aussies dropped, the Stokes missed catch was when we won it though
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    Incredible. Just incredible. 
    In 2005 for the Edgbaston test i was flying and England won whilst i was in the air, today i was also flying and also just landed thinking we had lost.

    This weekend for me has been three events, three wins all by 1.
    1 run on Feiday night, 1 goal yesterday and 1 wicket today - and yet in all three there were times i thought we wwre going to lose.
    Cant wait to get home to watch the highlights and reactions 
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    Another strange thing is that i am also flying during the fourth Test.