Mitchell Starc and Travis Head were astoundingly good, but plenty of England players will want to look away now
By 99.94 Cricket Blog
Ben Stokes: 184 runs at 18.4; 15 wickets at 25.1; two catches
A body unable to match his will, a team unable to match his ambition and, surely, a screaming sense that he made mistakes when preparing for this challenging but winnable series all adds up to a horrible seven weeks for the England captain. His personal form inevitably buckled – and you have to feel a little sympathy for a man more guilty of giving too much rather than too little.
To be clean bowled three times, caught behind the wicket six times and run out once at least avoids the tragicomedy on a loop of finding the man in the deep put there for the slog. But, for the man 12th on England’s all-time Test runs list, it is not a good look.
