Ben Stokes: remember the name. This World Cup was always billed as a moment to refresh and start over, a chance to straighten the mistakes of the recent past. It is a process that works on the micro as well as the macro level.
For a long time Sunday’s final at Lord’s was an occasion looking for a shape to fit, a genre to follow. As England restricted New Zealand’s batsmen it must have felt for the home crowd like a summer comedy, a jaunt destined for the inevitable happy ending. As England fumbled and stalled in mid-afternoon it seemed like something else: a saga, an epic, perhaps even, as wickets began to fall, a horror story.
Written by Barney Ronay
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jul/15/ben-stokes-redemption-story-world-cup-tour-de-force under the title “Ben Stokes writes his redemption story with World Cup tour de force”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
