Roger Alton Roger Alton

Add Ben Stokes to the world’s greatest batsmen

If you ain’t got a strip club in your bedroom, you ain’t no cricket player, according to the T20 cash machine

issue 09 January 2016

On Sunday morning a friend texted: ‘You watching the big bash, or the domestic stuff down in Australia?’ On one channel, you could be in Cape Town as Ben Stokes slaughtered the bowling attack of the world’s No.1 side; one click and you were in Brisbane at the Gabba to see the Heat play the Sydney Thunder in the Big Bash T20 League.

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