


And any idea why he hadn’t bowled for much of the day? “Don’t know, I was warming up for three hours!”Īn iconoclast on the rampage, Stokes is interested in convention only in order to smash it up. “I’ll take them wickets!” he said, when asked about Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan – one with a drag down, the other with a beauty.

That experience is merely the by-product of self-expression and that freedom is everything.Īhmed gave an interview at the end just there, chewing gum, eyes ablaze, swaying slightly as the adrenaline sloshed around. This week’s miracle comes fully formed, and with a message: that this team has no limits. You may have heard that this week Rehan Ahmed became England’s youngest men’s Test cricketer, the youngest boy in history to take five wickets on Test debut, the second English leg-spinner to take a five-for since 1959 and the latest teenager to make his dad cry on national TV. In Rehan Ahmed and James Anderson, England have two superstars at opposite ends of the same journey, writes Phil Walker.
