BIG BEN’S STRIKING SIX

despite helping to dismiss West Indies for 123, England were 46-4 at the close.

Stokes said: “To be on one board at Lord’s is an honour and they can’t take it away from you, but to be on both is a nice thing to think about.

“I’ll always be able to say I’m on there for batting and bowling now.” The Durham all-rounder joins Botham, Sir Gubby Allen, Ray Illingworth, Stuart Broad and Andrew Flintoff in the feat – but he reckoned he owed the team a bowling performance.

“I felt like I was letting the team down a little,” he added. “So, to bowl like that was a bit of a monkey off my back.”