Ben Stokes, that deflection and the question of what is luck in sport?
Published on: Friday 19 July 2019
A butterfly flaps its wings in San Francisco, and a traffic policeman feels just the faintest chill on the back of his neck in Tokyo, and a mangrove sighs in the breeze in Madagascar, and a cigarette flicked from the fourth floor of an apartment block narrowly misses the back wheel of a passing cyclist in Amsterdam, and at Lord’s a cricket ball arcs through the air and lands
