Devastated Stokes Agog to Move on from Brathwaite Beating

LONDON: England all-rounder Ben Stokes says he was larboard devastated by his endure over abhorrence
appearance in the Apple Twenty20 final adjoin West Indies and has yet to watch a re-run of Carlos Brathwaite hitting him for four beeline sixes.

The 24-year-old, who had becoming acclamation for his efforts in the endure over of England’s semi-final win over New Zealand, was tasked with bowling the final over on Sunday in Kolkata with the West Indies defective an absurd 19 from it to win.

But Brathwaite slugged Stokes’ aboriginal four deliveries for behemothic sixes to accord the West Indies their additional Apple Twenty 20 appellation and leave the Englishman on his haunches searching abutting to tears.

“I thought, ‘I’ve just absent the Apple Cup’. I couldn’t accept it,” Stokes was quoted as adage by British bi-weekly The Daily Telegraph on Friday.

“I didn’t apperceive what to do. It took me so continued to get aback on my feet. I didn’t wish to get aback up. It was like the accomplished apple had appear down on me. There weren’t any acceptable things traveling through my mind. It was just complete devastation.”

Stokes, who had accustomed up just three runs in the final over adjoin New Zealand, said he was still assured of closing out achievement adjoin the West Indies even afterwards Brathwaite had clubbed his aboriginal two deliveries over the rope.

“After the aboriginal six I thought, ‘Oh God’, but I was abetment myself. I had been in that blazon of bearings for four weeks in all my training so it was not a case of captivation annihilation aback and cerebration I achievement I get this one in, because I knew I could do it,” Stokes said.

“I haven’t watched it aback yet because I don’t wish to accompany myself to do that at this date so I don’t apperceive how abundant I absent it by but as a bowler you accept a activity as anon as you let go whether or not you accept got a yorker appropriate and it acquainted like I had.”

Stokes was accountable to badinage in his built-in New Zealand, and two radio presenters were abeyant afterwards they advertisement a chat with his mother on air as she approved to avert her son adjoin the criticism.

Stokes said admitting the acquaintance in the final he would not be abstention the albatross of bowling at the afterlife again.

“Some canicule they go well. Some canicule they don’t,” he added.

“That was a bad day but I won’t be afraid abroad from it. You about wish it to appear because if you attach it anybody forgets (the final).”