Brearley Rates Stokes'S Performance Greater Than Great Ian Botham
The Free Press Journal - Ujjain|August 29, 2019

It Is Hard To Believe Stokes’S Could Ever Have Been, Or Even Ever Will Be, Surpassed, Wrote Botham’S 1981 Captain In The Times. Both Performances Included Stamina And Skill With The Ball As Well As A Monumental Performance With The Bat, Each Of Them Securing Narrow Wins For England In Cricket’S Oldest Rivalry

Brearley Rates Stokes'S Performance Greater Than Great Ian Botham

Ben Stokes’s astonishing match-winning performance in the third Ashes Test at Headingley upstages that of Ian Botham in 1981 at the same ground, according to former England captain Mike Brearley. Stokes’s 135 not out on Sunday secured an highly unlikely onewicket win over Australia — England required 73 when the last batsman Jack Leach came to the wicket — and followed a monumental 24over bowling stint in the tourists’ second innings during which he took three wickets.

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