New Delhi. England all-rounder Ben Stokes has now regained his top form after taking an indefinite break from cricket. In the second match of the three-match Test series being played against the West Indies, this stalwart scored a brilliant century. Stokes, along with captain Joe Root, took the team to a massive score of 507 runs in the first innings. During this innings, he achieved a special achievement and made a place in the list of legends like Kapil Dev, Ian Batham.
England’s team declared the first innings of the second test match against West Indies by scoring 507 runs for 9 wickets. Captain Root made 153 runs in 316 balls with the help of 14 fours. Stokes played an innings of 120 runs in 128 balls with the help of 11 fours and 6 sixes. During this innings, this Stokes made a place in the list of former legendary all-rounders.
Stokes made it to Kapil-Batham’s list
Stokes scored his 11th century in this format in the first innings of the second Test against the West Indies. In this innings, the player scored 20 runs in an over from Alzarri Jofas, which included three consecutive fours and a six. During this, Stokes completed 5000 runs in Tests. Stokes along with Gary Sobers, Kapil Dev, Ian Batham, Jacques Kallis became the all-rounder to score 100 wickets and 5000 runs in Tests.
5 thousand and 100 test wickets
In this list, the name of former South African legend Kallis is at the top. In his Test career, this player took a total of 292 wickets with 13289 runs. West Indies has Sobers who has 235 wickets with 8032 runs to his name. Batham of England took 383 wickets with 5200 runs. India legend Kapil took a record 434 wickets with 5248 runs. Stokes has taken 170 wickets with more than 5000 runs.
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