Thank you, Ben Stokes, for another Headingley miracle | Emma John
After years of hearing about Botham’s exploits from our parents, thanks to Ben Stokes we now have new tales to tell
There was something about Ben Stokes’s miraculous match-winning performance in the third Ashes Test that felt like a coming of age. Not for him, you understand, but for me. For me and anyone else too embryonic to have been around for Headingley 81.
Like all England fans, I maintain a suitable awe of Ian Botham, all-round genius and charity walker. But Beefy has always belonged to the baby boomers. His mustachioed, cigar-smoking swagger was theirs.
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