Ben Stokes To Join England's 100 Test Club

Stokes has been integral to the team's cause in Test cricket since he made his Test debut in Adelaide during the 2013 Ashes in Australia, a forgettable series from England's perspective. He has scored 6251 runs in 179 Test innings at an average of 36.34 with 13 centuries and 31 half-centuries. Stokes has also taken 197 wickets in the 146 innings that he has bowled at an average of 32.07 and strike rate of 58.2. He has also taken 105 catches and in Test cricket.

Only Jacques Kallis and Garry Sobers have accounted for better all-round stats with regards to batting, bowling and fielding than Stokes. The England captain leads the list for most sixes in the longest format of the game by some distance. He has hit 128 sixes in his career while the second best is England's current head coach and former New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum, who hit 107. He is also one of just three players to have hit over 100 sixes in Test cricket, the third being Australia great Adam Gilchrist (100).

A number of records fell Stokes's way during his mammoth partnership with Jonny Bairstow alone during the Cape Town Test against South Africa in 2016. The pair slammed 399 runs off just 349 balls for the sixth wicket with Stokes scoring 258 in 198 balls and Bairstow remaining unbeaten on 150 off 191. Stokes' score was the highest by any No.6 batter in the history of Test cricket.