Incredible.

To do what he done in a county game would be amazing, to do it in a normal test match even better, to do it in ashes game even better....but to do it to save the ashes, with all the fans n media and whole country on your shoulders and the Aussies steaming in and their spinners ripping the ball ?

It's gotta b one of the most nerveless piece of sport I think I have seen.

And I dont say things like that lightly.

With cricket, the difference between being caught or getting n edge and a four or six is millimetres.

So for stokes to consistently middle it under that pressure? Words can even describe how hard that is. Props to jack leach to. Every laurel needs a hardy.

I speak as someone who has played cricket s lot and I get super nervous at my amateur level.

So I can't even fathom how he could play like that in those circumstances.

You can't even put into words how impressive it was.