Ben Stokes is currently one of the most phenomenal cricketers in the international cricketing canon. He has crafted several match-defining knocks which have seen him hammering blistering innings with the bat and registering incredible bowling figures, propelling England to a stunning victory.
However, there are a few debates about his consistency in the national colours. Though showing an extreme knack for delivering on the grandest of occasions, Stokes has failed to produce those rip-roaring performances on a daily basis.
Spanning from a cricket world cup to his heroics in the national colours in any format of the game that he has been a part of, his melioration down the years has played a pivotal role in shaping England as the current invincible unit that they are at the moment.
Stokes is also touted as one of the best all-rounders currently to play the game and his impressive figures are a burning testimony to the fact that how a hot-headed young lad upped his game to evolve into one of the best cricketers of the world.
After a dominant knock in the third innings of the recently concluded second test, Stokes hammered a blistering 78 of just 57 deliveries and stayed unbeaten until the end to propel England to post a mammoth total for the Indies to chase. The Caribbean batting came a cropper early in the innings and all they could garner was a paltry 198 before the hosts bundled them up to draw the series level.
Now, this stellar performance from Stokes elicited praises from his fans across the globe and many took to the social media lionizing the English batsman.
Fox Cricket posted a picture of Ben Stokes hammering a biggie and quoted, “78 NOT OUT. Is there anything Ben Stokes can’t do?”
This where things took a funny twist as a user answered, “Play for his own country”. Probably he was the same ardent fan who wanted Stokes to repeatedly perform every day so that England has a cakewalk on the field. Unfortunately for him, Stokes is a human and not some perfected God yet and his spasmodic falls from grace are more than enough to validate his flesh and blood.
