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Home / Sports / Cricket / Photos / ENG vs AUS 1st Test: Ben Stokes achieves new feat in Ashes

ENG vs AUS 1st Test: Ben Stokes achieves new feat in Ashes

Updated On: 22 November, 2025 01:07 PM IST | Sujay Shivalkar

In the first Test match of the Ashes series against Australia, England`s Ben Stokes achieved a new feat. Here is all you need to know (Pic: File Pic)

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In the first Test match of the Ashes series against Australia, England`s Ben Stokes achieved a new feat. Here is all you need to know (Pic: File Pic)

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In the first Test match of the Ashes series against Australia, England`s Ben Stokes achieved a new feat. Here is all you need to know (Pic: File Pic)
<p>In the first Test match of the Ashes series against Australia, Ben Stokes registered a five-wicket haul by conceding 23 runs in his spell of six overs</p>

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In the first Test match of the Ashes series against Australia, Ben Stokes registered a five-wicket haul by conceding 23 runs in his spell of six overs

<p>With this, he registered the best-ever bowling figures by an England captain during an Ashes Test match in Australia</p>

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With this, he registered the best-ever bowling figures by an England captain during an Ashes Test match in Australia

<p>Stokes is also the fifth English captain to take a five-wicket haul in an Ashes Test in Australia, after Gubby Allen (5/36 in Brisbane, 1936), Johnny Douglas (5/46 in Melbourne, 1912), Freddie Brown (5/49 in Melbourne, 1951) and Bob Willis (5/66 in Brisbane, 1982)</p>

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Stokes is also the fifth English captain to take a five-wicket haul in an Ashes Test in Australia, after Gubby Allen (5/36 in Brisbane, 1936), Johnny Douglas (5/46 in Melbourne, 1912), Freddie Brown (5/49 in Melbourne, 1951) and Bob Willis (5/66 in Brisbane, 1982)

<p>Stokes has been excellent this year as a bowler, having taken 25 scalps in six Tests at an average of 20.16, with two five-wicket hauls in 11 innings</p>

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Stokes has been excellent this year as a bowler, having taken 25 scalps in six Tests at an average of 20.16, with two five-wicket hauls in 11 innings

<p>Earlier this year, in the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy against India at home, he took 17 scalps in four matches at an average of 25.23, with best figures of 5/72, ending as the third-highest wicket-taker in the series</p>

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Earlier this year, in the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy against India at home, he took 17 scalps in four matches at an average of 25.23, with best figures of 5/72, ending as the third-highest wicket-taker in the series

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