Bullying Ben’s in it to win it
RA FASCINATING sporting insight from Olympic runner Linford Christie on Good Morning Britain this week. I asked him if he identified with Ben Stokes’ incredible feat of arms at Headingley against Australia.
“Every race must have seemed like a mountain to climb when you were in
the blocks. Stokes must have felt much the same walking to the crease,” I mused. Christie, now 59, smiled. “Actually, I was never the fastest man on the track,” he told me. “The trick was making my competitors think I was.”
He was talking about intimidation. Stokes intimidated the Aussies into thinking they’d not get him out. And they didn’t.