PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEN

Swashbuckling Stokes urges pals to put Windies to sword and plunder the booty

- DEAN WILSON

CRICKET: THIRD TEST

BEN STOKES has urged his team to reap their rewards in the third winner-takes-all Test.

At 0-0 with this final match to play, the Richards-Botham Trophy is up for grabs for the first time to the victor and Stokes reckons he and his teammates will have earned it if they triumph.

Both draws, in which England have made the running, have gone down to the wire on the fifth day which has taken its toll on the bodies of those involved.

And Stokes insists that a series win in a winter where victory has yet to be tasted would be an incredible achievement for a new-look team with youthful energy.