Fast food, cut grass: Stokes' unique Leeds celebrations

How do you celebrate one of the great Test wins? Well, if you're Ben Stokes, you load up on fast food at the drive through and have a room party with your captain's parents.

And the day after you rush home and get the lawnmower out to cut your grass.

Stokes revealed the details of how he and his England teammates celebrated their incredible third Test victory at Headingley in his column for British tabloid The Mirror.

"Now we've got a little break to get home and get ourselves ready to go again at Old Trafford, and I've been telling all the lads I can't wait to get home and cut the grass," Stokes wrote.

"I'm so excited by that and I don't care if that makes me sad, or middle aged or whatever, that is what I'm looking forward to."

Followers of Stokes' Instagram account will know the England allrounder is proud of his backyard. They will also know not to worry about any back-breaking labour pushing around the mower; Stokes has a high-tech automatic robo-mower to keep his grass short.

But before the greenkeeping it was party time for an England side that rebounded from being bowled out for 67 to keep the Ashes series alive heading into the final two Tests.

"We started in the changing room and they had the full replay of the partnership with me and Jack Leach on the TV so we all watched it together with Alastair Cook who came up to see everyone," Stokes wrote.

"It was great to re-live it all and the atmosphere in the dressing room was just brilliant even with three guys stood in the bathtub, and I have no idea why.

"Joe Denly, Jos Buttler and Rory Burns were all in there singing songs and asking people to get in the bath with them, but it was just too hot so we had to go outside.

"We went out to the Dickie Bird balcony and J-Roy said, 'are we going to go out on the pitch or what?' so we went to the toilet, grabbed the speakers, and got out there where Leachy gave everyone an action replay of his single!

"It was a great celebration amongst us before we went back to the team hotel to catch up with friends and family.

"Me, Buttler, Woakes, Burns and Root all jumped in an uber and got £55 worth of McDonald's drive thru on the way. There were quarter-pounders and filet'o'fish flying everywhere!

"Unlike at the World Cup not everybody had their families there but there were plenty of friends and people who had come up and we had a great night, with Joe Denly hosting the afterparty in his room with me, Rooty, Rooty's mum and dad and Rory Burns. It was a brilliant night."

While the Australians head to Derbyshire for a three-day tour match against county opposition, the England squad have some time off before regrouping for the fourth Test at Manchester's Old Trafford that begins on September 4.

"I'm not interested in how my life might change or anything like that just yet because there is still more to be done," Stokes told The Mirror, with reference to his remarkable hundred that had the legendary Sir Ian Botham predicting the current allrounder's life would be forever altered.

"There are two more Tests to come and we want to win those Ashes back so let's wait and see how the summer ends before we start talking about things like that.

"I'm incredibly proud of what I managed to achieve throughout this Test match with bat and ball, but that is what the team ask me to do. Bowl and bat, so I try and do it as well as I can."

2019 Qantas Ashes Tour of England

Australia squad: Tim Paine (c), Cameron Bancroft, Pat Cummins, Marcus Harris, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Marsh, Michael Neser, James Pattinson, Peter Siddle, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc, Matthew Wade, David Warner.

England squad: Joe Root (c), Jofra Archer, Jonny Bairstow, Stuart Broad, Rory Burns, Jos Buttler, Sam Curran, Joe Denly, Jack Leach, Jason Roy, Ben Stokes (vc), Chris Woakes.

First Test: Australia beat England by 251 runs at Edgbaston

Second Test: Match drawn at Lord's

Third Test: England defeat Australia by one wicket at Headingley

Tour match: Australians v Derbyshire, August 29-31

Fourth Test: September 4-8, Old Trafford

Fifth Test: September 12-16, The Oval