Daily Mail

HOW BEN WENT FROM BRILLIANT TO BRAINLESS

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BEN STOKES spent four and a half hours grafting his way to 66 off 188 balls. So what does he do just before the dinner break? He falls hook, line and sinker for Neil Wagner’s bouncer barrage and tries a ridiculous­ly ambitious smash over point. The result was a tame catch lobbed up to Tim Southee and the game was up for England.

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