There was a time when England captains would wear a haunted look after a series defeat but as Ben Stokes reflected on his first in the job, sealed by India chasing down 192 on a fourth day in Ranchi that threw up a dash of tension, he was pretty zen, all told.
This was not in preparation for the now dead-rubber fifth Test in Dharamsala, home of the Dalai Lama, but more a reflection of his outlook on life these days; how he has learned to treat those two impostors, triumph and disaster, just the same. Stokes wants to win, no question, but to be chewed up by defeat would be to lose perspective.
