THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
SHORTLISTED FOR SPORTS AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR AT THE 2020 TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS.
BEN STOKES: WINNER OF THE 2019 BBC SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR AWARD
''He is the Special One, and I intend to call him that for the rest of his career'' Sir Ian Botham, Daily Telegraph
''There are not enough superlatives to describe Ben Stokes'' Nasser Hussain, Daily Mail
''The undisputed hero of English cricket'' The Times
Early evening on Sunday 14th July 2019. Lord''s Cricket Ground in London. Something unprecedented had just happened: England had won the Cricket World Cup for the very first time since the tournament''s inception in 1975. At the epicentre of England''s historic triumph was Ben Stokes, the talismanic all-rounder with an insatiable appetite for The Big Occasion. He contributed a critical 84 runs off 98 balls when England bat