Considered one of essentially the most clutch gamers within the fashionable period, star allrounder Ben Stokes carried out yet one more rescue of the best order to take England from 192 for the loss of six wickets to 339 of their 50 overs towards the Netherlands on Wednesday, November 8.
England’s batting woes got here to the fore but once more as Joe Root (28 runs off 35 balls), Jonny Bairstow (15 off 17 balls), Harry Brook (11 off 16 balls), Jos Buttler (5 off 11 balls) and Moeen Ali (4 off 15) didn’t do what was anticipated out of them.
Having been lowered to 192 for six with greater than 14 overs remaining, England have been beneath the intense risk of getting bowled out for a beneath par whole but once more however a monumental effort from their purple-ball skipper took them out of peril and put them in a consolidating place.
Stokes, who is understood for his extremely-aggressive batting method, modified his taking part in type and dug in. He nudged the ball into the gaps to maintain rotating the strike and stitched a 129-run stand (third-highest partnership for the seventh wicket or beneath in ODI World Cup historical past) with fellow allrounder Chris Woakes to put the muse of England’s imposing whole.
Stokes was pretty defensive and maintained the identical tempo until the forty second over to keep away from any additional harm to the Three Lions. The 32-yr-previous thumped Bas de Leede over mid-wicket and straight into the group to shift his gear and what adopted was absolute carnage as the Dutch bowlers seemed clueless.
Stokes’ dramatic push left the Dutch ducking for canopy. The southpaw took 58 balls to achieve his fifty after which pressed the accelerator so as to add his subsequent fifty runs off simply 26 balls. Despite nearing his maiden World Cup hundred, Stokes remained selfless and saved in search of extremely rewarding photographs as a substitute of dealing in singles and twos to achieve the milestone. The innings additionally noticed him create historical past as he grew to become solely the second participant within the historical past of worldwide cricket to attain 10000 runs and declare 200 wickets after Jacques Kallis.
Here’s how netizens reacted to Stokes’ performances towards the Netherlands:
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