The Ashes hero has more than the teams’ victory to be happy about! The 11th man, the warrior, the one-who-gave-his-all in the final innings of the Third Ashes against Australia, Jack Leach is set to have a forever free supply of glasses from the tournament sponsor Specsavers.
It started when the man of the match and the cricketer that made the World Cup 2019 a forever memory Ben Stokes tweeted, “@Specsavers do your self a favour and give him free glasses for life @jackleach1991.” Even the top bowler Stuart Broad joined the fun and wrote, “and cleaning cloths.”
We can confirm we will offer Jack Leach free glasses for life https://t.co/7rfPBK77GS
— Specsavers (@Specsavers) August 25, 2019
Jack Leach……..@Specsavers do your self a favour and give him free glasses for life @jackleach1991
— Ben Stokes (@benstokes38) August 25, 2019
& cleaning cloths
— Stuart Broad (@StuartBroad8) August 25, 2019
Chasing a tall 359 run target, England were 286/9 with 73 runs still remaining when Stokes was joined by last man Jack Leach. The pair put on a stand of 76 in 10.2 overs as the hosts scripted the second-highest successful run chase in Test cricket on English soil and the joint fifth overall.
“It was unbelievable and something I will never forget. I’ve got to take it all in. I’m not sure it will ever happen again. It’s in the top two feelings I have ever had on a cricket field,” Stokes told Sky TV.
“Leachy has done it before — he was the super nightwatchman who got 92 (against Ireland at Lord’s in July), so I backed him and knew that he had the desire to keep the ball out. I wasn’t nervous until we needed single figures but I couldn’t watch at the end — I was just waiting to see what happened,” he said.
“They are probably the most crucial balls Jack is going to face in his Test career, so credit to him for doing that in a high-pressure situation. When it got down into the 20s, I thought I could rein it in a little but when it was up at fifties, sixties, seventies I thought I really had to go.
“I was so in the zone of what I had to do. Time wasn’t an issue at the start of the day — if it was going to take us until Monday to get the runs, we were fully prepared to do that,” Stoke was quoted as saying by www.skysports.com.
With inputs from IANS.
