A voice in my head said “Leave it Dave, he ain’t worf it!”. But I shall respond thus:
The young Bletch tried his luck playing cricket,
“With my skills,” he said, “I’ll be just the ticket”.
No box did he wear,
As he strode to the square,
And poor Bletch now has no middle wicket.
There was a lot of discussion on CricInfo, with various contributors questioning Stokes’ qualities, mostly based on his batting and bowling averages. But if you understand only numbers, you don’t understand cricket at all.