Ben Stokes Bombshell Shows How Power Has Swung to Sport's Players and Coaches

Stoke’s retirement show ‘disrespectful’: Johnson

Former Australian tearaway Mitchell Johnson has labelled Ben Stokes’ bizarre Test cricket farewell ‘disrespectful’ as the English skipper bowed out of the game on Monday.

Ben Stokes bombshell shows how power has swung to sport's players and coaches

Social media has allowed the likes of Ben Stokes to control their own narrative but we are no nearer to knowing the truth, says Ed Warner. Truth is a pliable concept, capable of being moulded to suit the interests of the individual, and a battleground for competing narratives.  Perspective is not all; volume and reach are key factors in determining the ultimate truth as enshrined in public memory and tomorrow’s history books (or blogs). No surpr…