Ben Stokes opened the batting in England’s second innings after Mark Wood had taken five wickets for seven runs to set up a brief chase
Ben Stokes took the lion’s share of the strike in opening alongside Ben Duckett as England rapidly chased down the winning target of 82.Ben Stokes took the lion’s share of the strike in opening alongside Ben Duckett as England rapidly chased down the winning target of 82.In the end, resistance was futile.
Even with a sense of inevitability about proceedings it was pretty spine-tingling stuff after lunch at Edgbaston, as Wood hared in from the Pavilion End amid a wall of sound and delivered the kind of lower order demolition job once associated with the tourists. He claimed five for nine in the space of just six overs, the old ball hooping late at speeds north of 90mph to send stumps tumbling and roll the tourists for 175 all out.
Stokes dashed off the field to strap on the pads and then reemerged in an utterly murderous mood, crashing the fastest half-century by an Englishman in Test cricket – 24 balls, to pip Ian Botham’s previous record against India in 1981 by four – and then wrapping up this one-sided affair when he heaved Kraigg Brathwaite’s right-arm short ball for his second six.
Walking off unbeaten on 57 from 28 balls – Ben Duckett, his partner, a breezy 25 from 16 – Stokes had completed the third 3-0 clean sweep of his captaincy. Most pleasing, one suspects, were the emergence of two of its architects, be it wicketkeeper Jamie Smith, 95 on the second day here, or Gus Atkinson’s 22 wickets in his debut series.
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