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England all-rounder: ‘Hopefully I’ve made him proud’• Stokes told Joe Root he was bowling until England wonBen Stokes has dedicated his match-winning performance in the second Test against
South Africa to his stricken father, who kept tabs on England’s series-levelling victory from his hospital bed in Johannesburg.
An emotional Stokes spoke after his three wickets in the final session led Joe Root’s team to a 189-run win in Cape Town. The all-rounder’s tour has been overshadowed by the illness to his father, Ged, who was admitted to intensive care two days before
Christmas but has since been stabilised.