‘I got loads of messages,
Robbie Fowler sent one and I
replied to him.. legeeeeeeend!’
DM1ST
mirror.co.uk/sport TUESDAY 27.08.2019 DAILY MIRROR^55MAGICAL MOMENTS AFTER HIS ASHES HEROICS
LOVIN’ IT
“WHILE I was batting I got hit in
the grille of my helmet by a
Josh Hazlewood bouncer and the
doctor came on.
But it hardly got me, even
though the stem guard flew off
(above). It was the first time I’d
been hit in a while. The Aussies
asked if I was all right, but I didn’t
talk back and gave them nothing
because I don’t talk to the
opposition when I’m batting.
They thought I was being a
‘tough guy’ and let me know it, but
I simply don’t engage and try to
stay in my own little bubble. There
is nothing to be gained from it.
After the game there was no
real interaction with the Aussies –
apart from the handshakes at the
end of the match.
We don’t generally go into
each other’s dressing rooms for
a beer after a game. We tend to
save that sort of thing until the
end of the series and I’m sure this
one will be the same.
Ashes cricket is hard and fair
and we’ve still got two games to go
to try to turn them over at Old
Trafford and then The Oval.”‘I was hit but
never said a
word to them’
‘Me and lads
took an Uber to
a drive thru.. there were
quarter pounders everywhere’
NOW JACK’S A
SPECS SYMBOL
Ben Stokes salutes
the Headingley crowd
after his amazing
innings won the
third TestSHOUT OF
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Happy eaters’
Buttler, Chris Woakes, Rory Burns
and Joe Root all jumped in an uber
and got £55 worth of McDonald’s
drive thru on the way.
“There were quarter pounders
and filet ‘o’ fish flying everywhere.”
Now Stokes has warned the
Aussies he will be gunning for them
again at Old Trafford next week in
the fourth Test.
He produced the performance of
a lifetime to keep the series alive,
but England must win both
remaining Tests to reclaim the
Ashes.
“It was a special day in a special
summer at Headingley,” said
Stokes. “But it’s far from over and
I’m ready for the last couple of laps
at Old Trafford and then The Oval.
“I’m incredibly proud of what I
managed to achieve throughout
this Test match with bat and ball.
“But that’s what the team ask me
to do, bowl and bat, so I try to do it
as well as I can.
“I had great support from Jack
Leach, who was just incredible to
hang in there until we got over the
line. Hopefully we can get over that
line a little more easily in the next
Test.”FROM BACK PAGE