Stokes completes a quite outrageous catch to dismiss Phehlukwayo as the crowd watches on in awe Stu Forster/Getty ImagesNot a bad World Cup debut this from Ben Stokes. And that was well before he had taken probably one of the finest catches this tournament has ever seen and then finished the game off with a couple of cheap wickets. The fact that this was Stokes’ first appearance in the tournament at the age of 27 tells you an awful lot about the considerable distance England have travelled since the last event in 2015, when he and Adil Rashid were not even deemed worthy of selection. That Stokes has been struggling to make significant contributions of late tells you even more about the potency of this England one-day international side. But towards the end of the recent five-match series against Pakistan he at last…

Source: The Times May 30, 2019 16:07 UTC