Stokes in the Long Room Size:30cm x 40cm stamping and chatting’

stamping and chatting’

Jockey Lester Piggott at Sandown Races in 1984

but they risked “taking a header” or “coming a cropper” – being thrown unceremoniously over the moustache handlebars

Rarely does sport witness such humility

Stokes in the Long Room Size:30cm x 40cm stamping and chatting’Miracle, masterclass, sensational, heroic. Google Ben Stokes at Headingley and the list of superlatives used to describe his performance against Australia on the fourth day of the third Ashes Test of 2019 is endless. Stokes almost single handedly won the Test for England with a knock of 135 not out as his team successfully pursued a second innings deficit of 359 a result which, for a while at least, prevented Australia from retaining the Ashes. With