"Worthy addition!" Ravi Shastri welcomes Ben Stokes in the elite list of all-rounders

Stokes smashed a hundred in the second Test against West Indies.

Ben Stokes | AFP

England all-rounder Ben Stokes joined former India cricketer and current coach Ravi Shastri in a list of elite all-rounders with 10 Test hundreds and 150-plus wickets.

Shastri welcomed Stokes in the list with a tweet and he called him a worthy addition. The list already has Gary Sobers, Ian Botham, Jacques Kallis, apart from Shastri. The Englishman has completed 10 Test hundreds and he has 153 wickets.

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"Welcome Big Ben. Worthy addition to the list - @benstokes38 #ENGvWI," Shastri, who picked 151 Test wickets and scored 11 centuries, wrote. 

South Africa's Kallis has 45 Test centuries and 292 wickets, while Sobers picked up 235 wickets, and smashed 26 centuries. England's Botham, who played 104 Tests, scored 14 centuries and bagged 383 scalps.

 
 

By - 19 Jul, 2020

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