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LONDON: The accolades keep coming for Ben Stokes after his astonishing match-winning innings in the third Ashes Test against Australia with icon Ian Botham anointing him English cricket´s ´Special One´. Until Stokes lit up Headingley on Sunday with his series-saving 135, Botham´s titanic 149 not out in the second innings of the 1981 Test against the Australians had been the …

LONDON: The accolades keep coming for Ben Stokes after his astonishing match-winning innings in the third Ashes Test against Australia with icon Ian Botham anointing him English cricket´s ´Special One´. Until Stokes lit up Headingley on Sunday with his series-saving 135, Botham´s titanic 149 not out in the second innings of the 1981 Test against the Australians had been the …