Recently, England obliterated Sri Lanka in the Test Series which meant that celebrations were in order for the England team. The win was a much deserved one and Jack Leach, Adil Rahid, Moeen Ali and Ben Stokes were chiefly responsible for that.
Ben Stokes was integral to the victory, with 5 wickets and 187 runs in his kitty at the end of test series. Of course, his efforts won a lot of praise. However, someone seemed to be of a different opinion.
Cricket expert and former batsman of the Indian cricket team, Sanjay Manjrekar tweeted that while the rest of the team was equally responsible for the victory, it was Stokes who got the credit for it.
He wrote, “So you have these hard working chefs who have made a great dish. Someone comes and puts a little garnish on top and he gets all the credit. Moeen, Leach, Foakes are those poor chefs and Stokes the one with the garnish.”
So you have these hardworking chefs who have made a great dish. Someone comes and puts a little garnish on top and he gets all the credit. Moeen, Leach, Foakes are those poor chefs and Stokes the one with the garnish.
— Sanjay Manjrekar (@sanjaymanjrekar) November 28, 2018
A fan tagged Ben Stokes in the post and Stokes gave a fitting reply. He said, “We don’t care about personal credit,and garnish is pointless on all food anyways,we care about winning,it’s a team sport and we won as a team #3-0 Cheers Sanjay”
https://twitter.com/benstokes38/status/1067719382011445248
Whose point of view do you support?