Botham hails sublime Stokes
[embedded content] Sir Ian Botham described Ben Stokes as “box office” after seeing his record for England’s fastest double-ton extinguished in front of his very own eyes in Cape Town. Stokes blasted a maiden double-century from just 163 deliveries on day two of the second Test versus South Africa, beating Botham’s 220-ball effort set against India at the Oval 34 years ago. That was the second fastest double-hundred in Test…