Ben Stokes — Headingley Ashes Innings (2019)

His match-winning partnership with Jack Leach included 76 runs in boundaries, and he faced 219 deliveries over 219 excruciating minutes—the longest last-wicket stand to win a Test match in 137 years of cricket. When the ball rolled to the boundary off his bat for a crucial four, Stokes had already scored 61% of the team's runs in the chase. It remains the benchmark for clutch batting under impossible odds.