Ben Stokes, who has created history in the India vs England Manchester Test. Due to his 141 -run innings, the England team reached 669 runs in the first innings, due to which it has gained 311 runs over India. In Manchester, a century hit Ben Stokes has made many big records. Stokes has also become the center of discussion because he has scored 5 wickets as well as a century. Actually Stokes is not the first all -rounder to have taken centuries and 5 wickets in the same Test. So let’s know here about those all -rounders who have taken 5 wickets in the same Test and have scored a century.
Century and 5 wickets in the same Test
Firstly, the player who took a century and 5 wickets in the same Test was Garfield Sobers of West Indies. Apart from Sobers, Mushtaq Mohammed, Jack Kallis, Shakib Al Hasan and Ravindra Jadeja have done this twice. Ravichandran Ashwin of India has taken 5 wickets 4 times and the great England player Ian Botham has taken 5 wickets in a total of 5 times with a century in the same Test. R Ashwin scored 6 centuries in his Test career, out of which four centuries were such that he scored 100 runs and took 5 wickets.
Now Ben Stokes has become a total of 8th all -rounders in the world to do so. In India’s first innings in the Manchester Test, he took the wickets of Sai Sudarshan, Shubman Gill, Shardul Thakur, Washington Sundar and Anshul Kamboj. While batting, he scored 141 runs in 198 balls.
- Garfield Sobers – 2 times
- Mushtaq Ahmed – 2 times
- Jack Callis – 2 times
- Shakib Al Hasan – 2 times
- Ravindra Jadeja – 2 times
- Ravichandran Ashwin – 4 times
- Ian Botham – 5 times
International career of Ben Stokes
Ben Stokes has completed 7,000 Test runs in the Manchester Test against India. So far, he has taken 7,031 runs in 115 Tests as well as 229 wickets. In his 114 ODI matches, Stokes has taken 74 wickets in addition to scoring 3,463 runs. At the same time, he has 585 runs and 26 wickets in 43 T20 matches.
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