It is hard to differentiate between a great game and a great finish but Ben Stokes’s Headingley miracle takes the biscuit
Being broad-minded, we had an unbeliever to stay the weekend. At some point on Sunday afternoon I yelled out of the window: “You’ve got to come and see this! It’s the most astonishing game!” A languorous, world-weary voice replied from the garden: “Cricket! Always astonishing. Always historic. Always unprecedented.” She never budged.
It is true that this was cricket’s second astonishing-historic-unprecedented Sunday in six weeks. It is also true it was being shown on Sky, whose policy is that everything must be treated as a-h-u even if it’s a goalless draw between Barrow and Boreham Wood. Which makes it hard to recognise an a-h-u when you see it. And on Sunday we really did (except our visitor).
Written by Matthew Engel
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2019/aug/27/greatest-cricket-test-of-all-headingley-2019-ashes under the title “There have been 2,358 Tests since 1877 and this was the greatest of them all | Matthew Engel”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
