Ben Stokes has always risen to any occasion and, since taking the captaincy, has transformed England’s fortunes, but the all-rounder admitted he never aspired to the role.
Since he made his first Test century in the hostile conditions at Perth, becoming only the third Englishman to score a century in the city since 1987, at the age of 22, Stokes has time and again dragged his side over the line.
