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[WalkingWicket37]

Ben Stokes 50 
<3 the bloke!

[FattusCattus]

Batted Mr Stokes - hope this is the beginning of a renaissance for the man!

[jamesisapayne]

Stokes showing his class and Ian Bell playing the perfect Ian Bell knock - I quite like the look of these two together. Having an aggressor like Stokes make it easier for Bell to accumulate in that easy flowing style.

[Giraffe208]

Quality from these two and of course Root.

Amazing how you can take control of a game when someone is capable of scoring at a run a ball! If only we could locate another player capable of doing that rather than the top 3 scratching around building pressure on themselves

[jwebber86]

i think stokes will a top international player if they learn to trust him and bat him up the order in ODI

[jamesisapayne]

Absolute jaffa from Roach - nothing Bell could do about that!

[Sam]

Ali may struggle to get back in if presumably fit for the next game by the looks of things.

[InternalTraining]

I am just happy that test cricket is back!!!!

Rooooooot!

I have always had my faith in Stokes.

[joeljonno]

Ali may struggle to get back in if presumably fit for the next game by the looks of things.

Drop Tredwell.


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[CrickFreak]

Nice knock by Bell

[19reading87]

Ian Bell class again!! Easily our best test player since 2009!

[SLC]

He still hasn't done much against good attack though has he? Aussies at home last time was his best, but they weren't all that then. Never done much against safrica or in the subcontinent.

[Manormanic]

Amazing how you can take control of a game when someone is capable of scoring at a run a ball! If only we could locate another player capable of doing that rather than the top 3 scratching around building pressure on themselves

We have located one - he scored about 1500 first class runs at the top of the order last season...and was carrying drinks so that Trott could restrap his pads four times in three balls then nick off and sulk!

[wayward_hayward]

Watching Ben Stokes bat last night was the first time I have been excited by a England player in a long time!

Bell's knock was class, played the situation very well.

[ppccopener]

yes it was good after a poor start,Root is a super player, he got the momentum back for us which is what everyone has been on about in earlier posts(above)

Lyth should of had first go after his season, Trott is (or definatley was) quality,no one knows if he will be back as good as he was until the Ashes, or NZ start roughing him up.

Presuming thou Lyth does not play a game anyone else think if Rashid comes in for Treadwell and Wood comes in for Jordan the whole side looks better and you are not losing anything in the batting?

or is it just me?