Stokes left stunned by Head's 'special knock' in Ashes defeat

Ben Stokes says England were in a 'wow phase' over Travis Head's century knock in Australia's first Test win

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00:00Yeah, yeah, obviously pretty tough, you know, going into our bowling innings there,

00:07where, you know, Australia had to chase the sort of highest, you know, score of the Test match.

00:13We were, you know, we were pretty confident in our ability to be able to go and bowl them out.

00:18But yeah, I mean, at the moment, still in a little bit of a wow phase after what Travis

00:25had just done to us. That was a pretty incredible special knock from Travis.

00:32It was so hard to be able to continue with plans in which, you know, we tried to implement

00:39because he had an answer for everything. You know, we went through three, four, five different modes

00:45to try and get the wicket of Travis because when he was going, we knew that he was going to be the big one.

00:49But yeah, he just had an answer to absolutely everything. And, you know, he really took the balls on.

00:55And yeah, it was some knock.