Stokes created moments and the moments are no more

Stokes created moments and the moments are no moreImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Ben Stokes has quit international cricket after a 15-year career packed with special momentsByStephan ShemiltCricket Correspondent at Trent BridgePublished33 minutes ago21 CommentsNaturally, there are numbers.More Test runs than Graham Thorpe and Denis Compton, more caps than David Gower and Geoffrey Boycott.More wickets than Darren Gough and Steve Harmison, at a better strike-rate than James Anderson and Ian Botham.More Tests as captain than Mike Brearley and Raymond Illingworth. More Test sixes than any other man on the planet.But Ben Stokes is a cricketer of more than mere numbers, even if his final Test tallies of 7,273 runs and 252 wickets leave him in the same statistical bracket as Sir Garfield Sobers and Jacques Kallis, bona fide legends.Stokes is a cricketer of moments. 'I was there' moments. 'I know where I was when...' moments. 'I cannot believe he has done that' moments. As long as he is there, 'I believe' moments.More moments than any other England cricketer? Certainly the most since Botham.Perth 2013 and Cape Town 2016. Lord's and Headingley in that glorious summer of 2019, and Melbourne 2022. Masterminding all-time great wins in Rawalpindi and Hyderabad.'I'm done' - Stokes rules out reversing retirementPublished2 hours agoStokes' England career ends with NZ series defeatPublished3 hours agoTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.This video can not be playedFigure caption, How England won an incredible Cricket World Cup finalThe lad born in Christchurch and made in Cumbria, who became one of the most influential figures in English cricketing history.The flame-haired tearaway who recovered from being hit for four successive sixes to lose a T20 World Cup final and an incident in Bristol that almost cost him his career to become one of the most significant figures in modern Bri...