Melbourne: Ben Stokes has been the beating heart of England’s white-ball revolution but it wasn’t that way six years ago at the Eden Garden, in another T20 World Cup final.
When Stokes gets a moment alone with himself after England’s promised ‘wild celebrations’ on Sunday night, his thoughts will no doubt take him to a name people still remember: Carlos Brathwaite.
That time, it wasn’t Stokes’s day. He had the ball in hand in the last over, with West Indies needing an improbable 19 off six. Brathwaite hit Stokes for four consecutive sixes to seal the deal, the lowest point in the career of one of England’s post-modern cricketing giants.
Stokes, arguably, bowled poorly that night, ostensibly because the occasion got to him, starting out with a half volley on leg stump. By the end of the onslaught he looked dazed and shellshocked.
This story is from the November 14, 2022 edition of The Times of India.
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