It was Bairstow's 11th one day century and only three England players has achieved this record (do you know who?). England won with 6.3 overs and 6 wickets left in their 50 overs, chasing 336.
Lord Botham, very much in the same style as Stokes, and best known as a cricketer, made his footballing debut for Scunthorpe Utd, coming on as a sub. in a Division 4 league match at Bournemouth. He made his full debut 2 years later, in a 2-7 home defeat by Wigan Ath. Botham played for Yeovil Town (1978-80) 17 apps and for Scunny (1980-5) 11 league matches and a cup tie. His "benefit match" was quite rightly!!! arranged by the club against Manchester Utd.
On the subject of Manchester United, on March 26th 2008, David Beckham won his 100th England cap in a 1-0 friendly defeat in France. He was the fifth England centurion (at the time). Other centurions are: Billy Wright (105), Bobby Moore (108), Ashley Cole (107), Bobby Charlton (106), Frank Lampard (106), Steven Gerrad (114), David Beckham (115), Wayne Rooney (120) and Peter Shilton (125).
The current "active" international is Bader Al Mutawa (181 caps) for Kuwait.
Sergio Ramos of Spain is also active with 179 caps. His first cap was won on 26th March 2005 and his latest on 25th March 2021.
Amongst the Ladies, Kristine Lilly (USA) has won 354 caps and 7 other US players have totalled more than 231 caps in the global top 10. The rest include a Canadian (Christian Sinclair 296 caps) and Chinese international, Pu Wei.
Fara Williams, (Reading) has won most England caps (170) between 2001-2018.
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