Ben Stokes’s rampage should not be sullied with a judgmental asterisk | Rob Smyth

England all-rounder’s 135 not out was not compromised by a turned-down lbw shout that, rather, showed much-touted infallibility of cricket’s technology may be in doubt

Ben Stokes: 135*. His euphoric rampage at Headingley will forever be accompanied by an asterisk. In Wisden it will simply demonstrate that he was not out, having completed a second miracle in six weeks off his own bat. But to a few, particularly in Australia, the asterisk will be an annotation. The Australian newspaper captured the mood of a sour minority with the headline: “Ben Stokes was out, so third Test heroics should not have counted.”

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