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Thank you for your honest comments. As with any article, you need to take it with a big scoop of salt as to what it means to everyone. This was actually meant to be an editorial which is highly opinionated, and I hope this wasn’t a wrong platform for it.

As to this innings sealing his place in the pantheon of English or World greats? It’s early to call, and I don’t remember indicating otherwise. But is it a start? Yes.

And does he have what it takes to continue it? I personally feel so. Only time will tell if my expectation was validated or not.

As to the hyperbole in the article about the innings itself, I wouldn’t change a word if I had to, because it’s kinda been accepted by most fans across nationalities that what we witnessed was something astonishing and that it deserves all the praise possible. The fact that they bowled poorly probably for the first time this series shows you how chanceless the innings was.

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Thank you for your honest review. The article was about an extraordinary innings, and how he has turned around his life after everything he’s been through. I honestly missed out on writing about Steven Smith who’s more or less done something similar and would be happy to do so if he does something out of the world in the two tests left.

About Stokes’s average, I think some cricketers transcend averages and that Stokes is one of them. Nathan Lyon has the 3rd worst bowling average of anyone who’s taken 350+ wickets, but that’s not what would come to my mind when I think of Gazza.

Not to call anyone out here, but do you remember Dirk Nannes? Everyone calls out Jofra and Morgan, but the same provision that enabled Morgan to play for England enabled Nannes to play for Australia.

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