SUPERMAN WITH A PLAN

Stokes: It's great that teams are now worrying and scratching their heads about us... rather than the other way round

- DEAN WILSON

BEN STOKES is revelling in the mayhem his brave new style is causing.

Not in his clear, calm and focused dressing room, but in the opposition's as they try to get to grips with a team playing a whole new ball game.

And in the case of New Zealand, are trying to avoid a fifth defeat in a row to Stokes, their inability to react with a knockout blow of their own so far has left them scratching their heads just like England did Down Under last winter.

Stokes returns to Wellington and the Basin Reserve this week, a place where he lived for a couple of years before emigrating to England as a 12-year-old, with a seventh Test win in seven up for grabs.

Not since Michael Vaughan's team won all seven in the summer of 2004 has an England side gone on such a run of success.

And of course we all know where that led the following year.