A gang of men armed with bricks and poles smashed their way into a man's car before leaving him dying on a driveway, according to a witness.

The victim, named locally as Aqib Mazhar - who was in his 20s - was stabbed in the back after being targeted by the gang, said the woman.
They left him outside her home in Nottingham on Wednesday evening.
She tried to help Mr Mazhar but said his blood went "all over the pavement" as she turned him over.
Nottinghamshire Police said he died in hospital.
Updates on this story and more from Nottinghamshire
The witness said: "They were throwing bricks, they had poles."
"They were smashing the car window and this guy jumped into the back seat because they had smashed his side window, and as he jumped into the back the guy opened the door and [put a] knife into his back and he collapsed out on our driveway.
"The guy who was in the car with him ran off up the road and shouted to us 'Call an ambulance' and just left him on his own on our driveway to die."
She said there were several young men in three cars, which all stopped outside her house.
"They were just trying to smash the car but I was just thinking drive off, you know, lock your doors, and you're safe there," she said.
She dialled 999 and went outside to try to help Mr Mazhar.
"As I turned him onto his side all the blood just [went] all over the pavement," she said.
Police, who were called to Russell Road in Forest Fields at 20:35 BST on Wednesday, believe his fatal injuries were caused by a knife.
Another witness who lives in the road said she watched police doing first aid as they tried to save Mr Mazhar's life.
"I just heard a bang and I thought it was two cars crashed or something," she said.
"When I went to look out the window everything was going on.
"I wasn't surprised [he died] because I saw the police doing CPR on him and they didn't wait for the ambulance to come so it must have been serious."
The Jamia Masjid Sultania mosque in Sneinton wrote in a tribute on its Facebook page: "Please remember young brother Aqib Mazhar in your duas.
"He sadly passed away in the evening."
Officers are keen for anyone who witnessed what happened to come forward.


As the political map of the UK changes colour, one man has made it his mission to cross-stitch the election.

Here's Tom Katsumi's election night (and morning) in 10 tweets.
The team settles in...
Party colours are allocated.
Houghton and Sunderland South becomes the first constituency to declare, announcing at 22:48 BST.
The evening's stitching starts off at a slow and steady pace...
But it quickly becomes hard to keep up with the flurry of results...
Labour held many of the first seats, with successes in the north continuing to come in.
The unprecedented shift to the SNP in Scotland became clear - they ended up with 56 of Scotland's 59 seats.
Much of London went to Labour.
A quick nap...
Catching up on the Conservative south.


A woman is shown being violently attacked and robbed in Leicester in CCTV images released by police.

9 November 2015 Last updated at 16:25 GMT
The 66-year-old victim is repeatedly kicked in the face and head during the robbery.
The robber eventually runs off empty-handed after what police describe as a "nasty and callous attack on a lone woman" at around 06:00 BST on Saturday 13 June.
Leicestershire Police is appealing for anybody with information to get in contact.


Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler has said she "did the best that I could do" at the Eurovision Song Contest after her UK entry came 19th out of 26 countries.

"I'm sure a lot of people will be disappointed on my behalf but I have really enjoyed my Eurovision experience," she said in Malmo, Sweden.
"I did the best that I could do with a great song. I don't feel down and I'm ready to party."
Denmark's Emmelie de Forest won the contest with her song Only Teardrops.
Denmark finished with 281 points, followed by Azerbaijan with 234 points, while Ukraine were third with 214 points.
Tyler, who found global fame in the 1980s with hits such as Total Eclipse of the Heart, garnered 23 points for her song Believe In Me.
"The songs at the top of the table totally deserve to be up there," the 61-year-old star said afterwards. "Of course I would have liked to bring it back to the UK but it's been a night to remember."
She added: "I'm so glad and so happy that I did it because it was an incredible experience. It was like the Grammy Awards all over again."
Results in full on the Eurovision website
Her result was an improvement on last year when the UK's entrant Engelbert Humperdinck came second from last with just 12 points.
Overnight viewing figures show that an average of 7.7 million people tuned into the contest on BBC One in the UK, reaching a peak of 9.2 million between 22:45 and 23:00 BST (21:45 and 22:00 GMT).
There was disappointment for Ireland's Ryan Dolan, who came last with just five points.
Johnny Logan, the three-time Eurovision winner who represented Ireland, said the UK's entries had not been strong enough in recent years.
"I think over the years it's been slated so much in England and Ireland that the best writers don't take part in it any more. That's the reality," he said.


The UK government has called for a "full and transparent investigation" into the murder of a Cambridge University student in Egypt.

The body of Italian Giulio Regeni, which showed signs of torture, was found dumped near Cairo on 3 February.
A petition demanding the UK government intervene has now reached 10,000 signatures, meaning it must respond.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office confirmed the case had been raised with the Egyptian authorities.
The 28-year-old student had been researching trade unions, a politically sensitive subject in Egypt, when he went missing in Cairo on 25 January.
His body was found at a roadside nine days later.
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No-one has been arrested over Mr Regeni's death although last month Egyptian authorities claimed to have found a criminal gang responsible for his kidnapping and murder. All the gang members were killed in a shoot-out, they said.
The claim was branded "implausible and risible" by a number of academics who have been pressing the UK government to intervene in the case.
A petition demanding clarification on "what action it will take to ensure a credible investigation into Giulio's murder" has now been signed by more than 10,500 people meaning the government must now provide an official response.
Dr Anne Alexander, a colleague of Mr Regeni from Cambridge University, said: "It should not take 10,000 signatures on a petition to make the government speak out and add its voice to those who are calling for an independent investigation into his brutal murder.
"We hear constantly about how UK businesses can benefit from the close ties between the British and Egyptian governments. Yet when a PhD student from Cambridge is tortured and killed, ministers seem reluctant to say anything critical of the Egyptian authorities."
There has been no official response to the petition from the UK government, however, as The Times (paywall) reported, the FCO has released a statement.
"We are very concerned by reports that Mr Regeni had been subjected to torture," a department spokesman said.
"We have raised his case with the Egyptian authorities in both London and Cairo and underlined the need for a full and transparent investigation. We remain in contact with both the Italian and Egyptian authorities."
A friend of Mr Regeni told the BBC the student's supporters and friends considered the statement "bland".
They fully expected the government to follow this with "something fresh and much, much better," she said.


Over the weekend, the director of one of the world's biggest drug companies told me that this company had given up expecting to be paid by Greece for the life-saving pharmaceuticals it makes.

But for those dependent on its cancer and other treatments to stay alive, for example, it would not stop supplying them - though now for free. It could not and would not pass a death sentence by withholding medicines.
But whether any new cancer sufferers - those not diagnosed till today - would be able to obtain these treatments, now that's another question. I asked and my answer was a shrug and sheepish look.
That brings home to me the magnitude of what is happening in Greece.
We simply haven't seen since the 1930s a rich developed country collapse as Greece is doing right now - millions of people threatened with losing their life savings, companies on the point of collapse, cancer sufferers unsure what treatments, if any, will be available to them.
Now to most outsiders, this demarche is in part the consequence of the incompetence and greed of a succession of Greek governments, and the negligence, incompetence and political insensitivity of the rest of the eurozone and the International Monetary Fund.
In other words, debtor and creditors are both to blame, arguably in equal measure.
So what is particularly horrifying to dispassionate observers is the perception that most of the eurozone, and especially Germany, is hell-bent on making an example of Athens, humiliating the government of Alexis Tsipras, as the price of a financial rescue that - in a best case - will continue to make Greeks poorer, though not as poor as leaving the euro would do.
The unappealing facts are these.
On Friday, Mr Tsipras capitulated - and accepted tax rises, pension cuts and economic reforms that his creditors had been demanding and which the Greek people overwhelmingly rejected in a referendum a few days earlier.
But rather than using Mr Tsipras's personally painful climbdown - which involved forming an entente with hated opposition parties and splitting his own party - as a basis for consensual discussions on a sustainable bailout, Eurogroup finance ministers, led by Germany's Wolfgang Schaeuble, denigrated it as too little, too late.
Instead, Mr Schaeuble tried to bundle Athens towards a door no one thought existed, since the euro is supposed to be forever - the one marked "temporary exit".
This so terrified Mr Tsipras that he has since, in the Eurogroup meeting and an all-night meeting of eurozone government heads - which at the time of writing is still continuing - allowed himself into negotiations that, if successful, would rob Greece of all meaningful economic sovereignty.
Tax, spending, privatisations and the structure of industries - the stuff that shapes lives - would be determined by emergency legislation rushed through the Greek parliament by Wednesday, with no opportunity for serious debate.
Is that democracy?
Only if an entire parliament demonstrably surrenders by the middle of this week would the rest of the eurozone start talks on possibly extending the additional €86bn of finance Greece needs to prevent future default and the total collapse of its banking system.
And for what it's worth, the presumption among other eurozone leaders that Mr Tsipras is willing and able to deliver the abject obeisance of Athens lawmakers may turn out to be naive.
Here in Athens, all I detect from government members, bankers and others is fatalism that they're ruined, more or less whatever happens - which makes their behaviour unpredictable.
There would in effect be a takeover, for years, of Greece by Berlin, Brussels and the IMF in Washington.
Monitors, from the IMF, would be permanently stationed in Athens, to prevent backsliding by the administration.
Privatisation proceeds would be put into some kind of escrow account, possibly in Luxembourg.
Athens would be deprived of even a figleaf of national economic autonomy.
Now it is perfectly plausible to argue that Mr Tsipras and his colleagues have brought this upon themselves by their incompetence - especially in their negotiations with the rest of the eurozone - since being elected at the turn of the year.
But if the eurozone and EU stands for anything, it is solidarity between member nations.
The widespread perception that Berlin and Brussels have put fiscal rectitude, the importance of a country paying its debts, above humanitarian concern for a nation's plight, or even the long-term sustainability of the euro itself, will reap a bitter future harvest for eurozone and the wider EU.
Will the eurozone's marginalisation of Greece make it harder or easier for David Cameron to sell continued membership of the EU to the people of the UK?
Will the offer by Mr Schaeuble of temporary leave of absence for Greece from the euro make it harder or easier for Brussels, Berlin and the European Central Bank in Frankfurt to quell the growing doubts of investors - who fund all important economic activity - that the euro is the permanent enterprise it claims to be?
Will the rise and rise of populist anti-EU parties all over Europe be staunched or encouraged by reports that an EU official described Mr Tsipras's treatment by other EU leaders as the equivalent of "waterboarding"?
The eurozone crisis began in Greece in 2010. It threatens to degenerate into an existential crisis for the wider EU.


Misconduct alleged against a former deputy council leader will be pursued, the authority says.

Sandwell Councillor Mahboob Hussain is accused of six alleged council code of conduct breaches, according to solicitors Gowling WLG.
The law firm was brought in 15 months ago to investigate alleged irregularities in the sale of the authority's former properties.
Mr Hussain, now suspended by Labour, denies any wrongdoing.
Gowling investigated alleged irregularities in sales from 2011-2013, including three old public toilet blocks and a former coroner's office in Smethwick.
A parallel police investigation ended in March with no further action.
Publication of Gowling's report had been delayed after legal action by "one of the parties named", the council said, but was published on Friday "in the public interest".
Documents leaked to the BBC earlier had shed light on its findings.
The authority's chief executive Jan Britton said the "next step" was to refer allegations to its internal disciplinary watchdog-  the standards committee - to consider.
Mr Britton said a review would take place to "tighten up council procedures on land sales" and it would "consider if any disciplinary action against employees was required."
The allegations set out in the report include:
Former economy chief councillor Mr Jones and Mr Hussain stood down from the ruling cabinet after investigations began, but both had their suspensions from the Labour party lifted before elections on 5 May.
Mr Hussain has now been suspended afresh, the party confirmed.
Tipton Green ward councillor Mr Jones, whom the report said faced no misconduct issue, said he was "pleased" to see the report published and with those conclusions.
He added: "Throughout this matter I have always protested my innocence of any wrongdoing and I have always fully co-operated with all investigations."
Oldbury ward councillor Mr Hussain gave evidence to the report that he did not know who was buying the toilet blocks because the purchase was through a company name, not the name of his friend.
He said he had not been consulted and had not been aware of the price.
Mr Hafeez, who was arrested last year, provided no evidence despite requests, the report said. He has not yet responded to further questions from the BBC.
Police told him in November 2015 he would face no action.
He said in November his arrest "did not relate to the sale or purchase of any former Sandwell Council properties" and he was "considering taking legal action against a number of individuals and organisations".
Analysis
Behind this saga is no little irony.
The council introduced its so-called asset management strategy, under which it planned to streamline its operations into fewer buildings, to reduce its overheads and bring in some money by selling off property it no longer needed, it said to mitigate government cuts.
In the months since these investigations began, the council has spent thousands of pounds on solicitors to investigate these serious allegations â€Žand commissioning James Goudie QC to advise the council on whether it could publish the solicitors' work, putting a big dent in any money it might have made on these sales.


Plymouth have signed goalkeeper Vincent Dorel following a short trial with the League Two side.

The 23-year-old was released by Poire sur Vie before the closure of the transfer window.
The French club had been relegated to the equivalent of the National League following financial sanctions.
Argyle are in the last automatic promotion place with 10 matches left, despite losing to fellow promotion hopefuls Accrington on Saturday.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.


A Ceredigion pub has stopped serving food in its outdoor area due to concerns over birds.

JD Wetherspoon put signs on its outdoor tables in the Aberystwyth branch alerting customers food would not be served due to "ongoing avian issues".
The pub chain wants to build a solid roof to protect the area from birds, which can become trapped in the mesh roofing, prompting health concerns.
A spokesman said the presence of pigeons had dropped since the food ban.
The area of netting around the roof was also due to be increased to keep the birds away.


Daniel Ricciardo says he is prepared to move on from the crash in which Red Bull team-mate Max Verstappen took him out of the Hungarian Grand Prix.

The drivers collided at just the second corner of Sunday's race, as Verstappen locked up and slid into Ricciardo.
Ricciardo said it was "amateur, to say the least", adding: "The way Max handles it will dictate how it goes."
But on Monday the Australian said: "The situation was handled and taken care of in the right way to move forward."
Verstappen apologised to both Ricciardo and the team in his media interviews after the race, and said he would discuss it with his team-mate in private.
Ricciardo said on Twitter: "Yesterday was hard to take. You build up all day for those couple of hours of racing and then it's gone like that.
"Max apologised to me after the race and we spoke one on one."
During the race, Ricciardo was clearly furious about the collision, which happened as the drivers were disputing fourth place.
He swore over the radio about the incident, and described his 19-year-old team-mate as "a sore loser".
In interviews afterwards, Ricciardo added: "He doesn't like when a team-mate gets in front. It was a very poor mistake. Inexperience is too kind. That was just immaturity."
He said his reaction to the incident would depend on whether Verstappen "acts like the age he is, or if he acts like a man and admits the mistake".
The Dutchman told the media: "It is never my intention to hit anyone, especially not your team-mate and especially the relationship I have with Daniel.
"It is always very good and we can always have a laugh so this is not nice so I apologise to Daniel and to the team."


Margaret Thatcher was warned by her Welsh Secretary that funding cuts would have "most damaging" political effects, newly-released UK cabinet papers show.

Nicholas Edwards wrote to her in 1985 to complain about plans to cut the budget for regional development grants.
The money was widely used to attract investment and jobs to Wales.
The archives also show UK Treasury concern at overfunding of Scotland and Northern Ireland under the Barnett formula, a political issue to this day.
In the mid-1980s, Wales secured one fifth of inward investment into the UK despite having only 5% of the population.
But with the then Conservative government trying to cut public spending, the Treasury tried to cut back regional spending in England.
That could have hit the Welsh Office budget and the secretary of state Nicholas Edwards joined his Scottish counterpart George Younger to protest.
In a letter to the Treasury chief secretary (and fellow Welshman) Peter Rees - copied to the prime minister - Mr Edwards complained about the implications for his budget.
He wrote: "I agree strongly with the points George Younger has made in his letter. They apply equally in the three territories. The political effects in Wales, as in Scotland, would be most damaging."
Mr Edwards demanded to be present at meetings between the Treasury and Department for Trade and Industry when the issue was discussed.
The archives do not record any reply and Mr Edwards - now Lord Crickhowell - cannot recall the episode.
But, in another parallel with today's politics, the archives show Treasury concern at overfunding of Scotland and Northern Ireland under the so-called Barnett formula that is also used to calculate changes in the Welsh budget.
Peter Rees, later Lord Rees of Goytre, wrote to Mrs Thatcher: "Even our predecessors never saw it as any more than a stop-gap arrangement on the road to political devolution, certainly not as the permanency it has now become.
"Be that as it may, the block system is now publicly construed, in the territories, as apolitical entitlement to public expenditure. The longer we let it run the harder it becomes to challenge that perception, and the greater the risk of political repercussion when we do. "
MP David Willetts, then a Downing Street adviser, wrote: "Scotland and NI have their snouts well and truly in the public expenditure trough. The challenge is to find a politically acceptable way of putting them on the same diet as the English."
The files reveal that the Treasury considered suspending the formula.
Mr Rees wrote to Mrs Thatcher: "The 'fallback' approach to securing savings is to suspend the operation of the comparability formulae for the Scottish and Northern Ireland blocks - though not for Wales, where over-provision is not suspected."
Thirty years on, the UK political parties have vowed to keep the formula as part of a deal to keep Scotland in the United Kingdom.
Mrs Thatcher's ministers considered launching the controversial poll tax in Wales before England, according to other files just released.
The documents released by the National Archives also show Conservative government advisers feared a repeat of the 1984-85 miners' strike the following winter.
They also revealed there were plans to hide art treasures in underground tunnels in the Rhydymwyn Valley works, near Mold, if a civil or nuclear emergency arose during the 1980s.


Pudsey pops into the BBC News NI studios to meet the Good Morning Ulster team.

18 November 2016 Last updated at 13:04 GMT
Children in Need will be on BBC One NI at 19:30 GMT on Friday.


Pep Guardiola got his first win as Manchester City manager after a penalty shootout win over Borussia Dortmund.

City goalkeeper Angus Gunn, 20, saved from Mikel Morino to ensure a 6-5 victory on spot-kicks after a 1-1 draw in Shenzhen's Longgang Stadium.
Dortmund's Christian Pulisic, 17, had equalised in stoppage time to cancel out Sergio Aguero's opener.
It was City's first match in China, after rain caused Monday's game against Manchester United to be called off.
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This creature looks very different from us, but scientists think it could be our oldest ancestor.

Researchers found fossils of the creature in China.
A special microscope was used to look at them because they were only the size of a grain of rice.
They decided that what they had found was an undiscovered species of animal, distantly related to humans.
The team named it Saccorhytus coronarius, because of its sack like body and crown like mouth.
This little sack like creature only had one major opening on its whole body, its mouth.
So how did it poo? Well researchers on the team think saccorhytus  would probably have got rid of its waste through its mouth...yuck!
Saccorhytus lived about 540 million years ago and it's recent discovery has helped to fill gaps in group of organisms called deuterostomes, which we and some other creatures like starfish belong to.
Humans and other deuterostomes are grouped together because of the way that our cells divide and split before we are born.
Evidence of these tiny organisms has been found in rocks dating back around half a billion years.
But now we actually know what they looked like.
Simon Conway Morris, one of the research team from the University of Cambridge said "To the naked eye, the fossils we studied look like tiny black grains, but under the microscope the level of detail is jaw-dropping. All deuterostomes had a common ancestor, and we think that is what we are looking at here."


Gillingham chairman Paul Scally may change the club's management structure after sacking boss Justin Edinburgh.

Edinburgh, 46, was dismissed on Tuesday with the Gills 17th in the League One table and Scally unhappy with their form during 2016.
"I am not even convinced I am going to go down the manager route as we are looking at other alternatives now," Scally told BBC Radio Kent.
"We may have a head coach and a team of coaches, with a director of football."
LISTEN: Gillingham chairman Scally on Edinburgh sacking
He added: "There are lots of very good coaches out there who can do specific parts of the work.
"There are lots who have done well at different levels and we are looking at a combination at the moment."
Gillingham had been in the automatic promotion places in February last year, but a slump in form led to the Kent club finishing last season ninth in the table, five points off the play-offs.
Their inconsistent form continued this campaign, with Scally criticising performances following the FA Cup defeat by non-league Brackley Town in November.
The Priestfield Stadium side won just 13 of their 46 league games in 2016, and are eight points above the relegation zone.
"The team is the most expensive one we have ever had under my reign, and the club's history," Scally said.
"It isn't performing to the level I think it should be. If we carry on with the current performance there is a chance we will get dragged into a relegation battle."
Scally, who returned to work this week after two months recovering from a heart operation, says he will have the managerial situation addressed "very quickly".
Former Gills defender Ady Pennock is among the bookmakers' favourites to fill the vacancy with the first team next in action at Oldham on Saturday, 14 January.
"I am feeling fairly good and strong but it is not the start to the New Year and my return that I wanted," Scally added.
"There will be lots of names put forward, but people who have had a taste of Premier League and Championship football want to stay there.
"There are lots of options and we have a number of applications, as always. There is no cheap option."


A sailing club based at one of the South East's largest reservoirs has said it is likely to go into administration.

Bewl Water Sailing Club, on the Kent and Sussex border, has said its Â£160,000 rent is untenable and it is technically insolvent.
It said it was unable to pay an invoice for the next three months' rent, which becomes due on Wednesday.
Members have been urged to move boats from the site as soon as possible.
Vice Commodore Trevor Spink told the 600 members he had filed a notice of intention to appoint administrators to the High Court.
He said he intended to appoint administrator White Maund directly after an extraordinary general meeting on Sunday at the clubhouse in Lamberhurst.


The chancellor should "pause" plans to cut tax credits if he cannot soften the impact of the changes immediately, a Welsh Conservative MP has said.

Cardiff North MP Craig Williams, a member of Parliament's Work and Pensions Committee, said it would give ministers "time to look at the system".
George Osborne is due to set out plans to lessen the impact of the cuts in his Autumn Statement on 25 November.
His original proposals were rejected by the House of Lords in October.
The committee wants the reforms postponed for a year.
Mr Williams said the tax credit system was "not sustainable", but added: "We thought the way it's going through now it needed a lot more mitigation in terms of the next financial year especially."
"The committee have said there is no easy way to change the tax credit system.
"So [the chancellor] is going to have to look more holistically."
The committee's report criticised the Treasury for being "unacceptably evasive" during its investigation.
Mr Williams told the BBC: "There was a frustration in the committee during these two weeks that we simply don't have all the evidence to hand."
On Wednesday, the Treasury said the MPs' report was out of date as the new plans were due.
Mr Osborne announced plans to cut £4.4bn from the tax credits system in his summer Budget, as part of plans to save £12bn from the welfare bill.
Opponents of the changes, due to come into effect in April, say more than 1m existing recipients - many of whom work but are on low incomes - could be £1,300 a year worse off as a result.
In October, Welsh Conservatives leader Andrew RT Davies said he agreed with the principle behind the changes but called for them to be "phased in".


Johnny Ward has travelled all over the world, quite literally.

The 33-year-old from Northern Ireland has spent the last 10 years visiting every country on the planet.
Although he started out with little or no cash, he made himself rich along the way and claims to have earned more than $1.5m (£1.2m) from a travel blog.
But it wasn't one long beach-hopping holiday - the blog recounts his path through war-torn states, no-fly zones, and pirate-controlled seas.
He had to deal with corrupt border guards, robbers and people smugglers; he was arrested twice trying to cross in Liberian during the Ebola crisis and witnessed a shooting shortly after arriving in Angola.
"Within about 20 minutes I saw a guy getting shot twice, about two metres from me, it was horrible," said Johnny.
"Two guys on a scooter pulled up between my car and his car... they slung open the drivers' car door and shot him once in the stomach, once in the leg.
"So I ducked down in the car and our car tried to drive out of total gridlock and the driver is laughing - our driver is laughing at my reaction.
"It turned out that our driver had been in the Angolan civil war and had a lot of blood on his hands, so this was nothing to him.
"That was not a nice introduction to Angola."
However, none of those frightening experiences, nor the endless "hellish" bus rides, have dampened his sense of adventure.
The globetrotter is a difficult man to pin down, but when I finally made contact with him, he was feeling "hungover" in an airport in Oslo, having just returned from his journey's end celebration in the Arctic Circle.
Norway was the last county on his very long bucket list - chosen because its [relative] proximity to Northern Ireland meant he could share his achievement with family and friends.
They celebrated on Monday 13 March by drinking champagne round a camp fire, under the Northern Lights.
Johnny is now trying to get official confirmation that he is the youngest person and the only Irishman to travel to every nation on Earth, but he has his own rules about what constituents a proper visit.
"I'm speaking to the Guinness Book of Records at the moment," he said.
"If you literally put a toe over a border - no visa or anything - and GPS it, they count that as technically having visited a country, whereas for me, I feel like you have to enter the county, get stamped in."
He tried to spend several days and sometimes weeks in each state, to get a sense of place and an authentic experience.
"I've truly travelled the world, I feel like I can sleep well at night, knowing I have really tried to appreciate the beauty of every country."
So how on Earth did he do it? And what drove him to attempt such a feat?
"Life wasn't meant to be lived in an office, working five days out of seven, asking bosses for permission to go on holiday. No thanks," his blog declares.
"Social conformity, the media, our education systems dictate that we should go to school, go to uni, go to a city, work in an office, save for a retirement that we'll be too old to enjoy. Personally, I don't want to do that."
It's an enviable philosophy for those who can afford to hold it, but Johnny was at pains to point out he is not "just another white guy from a rich family, travelling around on daddy's credit card".
Born in Galway in the Republic of Ireland, he moved to Northern Ireland as a young child and was raised by a single mother in the County Down coastal town of Kilkeel.
The family had to rely on welfare payments for 13 years and although he describes it as a happy childhood, they had "no car, no central heating, no holidays".
After studying International Economics at an English university, his travels began the very next day after he finished his last university exam, with a one-way ticket to New York.
In 2006, he set himself a life-changing goal to visit every nation on Earth.
"The first five years, I was broke, teaching English in Thailand, Korea - scrambling together pennies on a budget of $10 a (£8) a day - really breadline broke - and then the next five [years], I started my blog and within six months an advertiser had contacted me."
He caught advertisers' attention with tales of the "pretty crazy year" he spent travelling from Capetown to Syria - overland with public transport.
"They contacted me and paid me $35 (£28) I think. That was kind of a watershed moment for me because then, suddenly, I had something tangible from this output.
"To finally have money paid into my Paypal account for the first time, I said like 'Wow, this might actually be something'."
He said the adverting requests grew until he was making up to $5,000 (£4,050) a month.
Realising how lucrative blogging could be, he started to buy up other bloggers' websites and started his own media company.
He can now boast that he doesn't "need to work for anyone any more".
But even though he may have escaped the nine-to-five trap, his global ambition has caused its own stresses and he spoke of his "relief" on reaching his final destination.
"It looks like I was super free to travel the world, making money online and everything, but actually, because I had this goal, that dictated a large portion of my life for the last 10 years," he said.
"So now I'm free."
So is this the end of the journey? Not by a mile.
After a trip back to his hometown of Kilkeel, he is planning another epic journey from Belfast to Bangkok - but this time there are no flights involved and he'll be driving a three-wheeled rickshaw.
"I think it would be really fun," he said, before signing off to "go and sort this hangover".


The UK's service sector helped the economy to grow faster than expected in the three months after the Brexit vote, official figures have indicated.

The economy expanded by 0.5% in the July-to-September period, according to the Office for National Statistics.
That was slower than the 0.7% rate in the previous quarter, but stronger than analysts' estimates of about 0.3%.
"There is little evidence of a pronounced effect in the immediate aftermath of the vote," the ONS said.
The stronger than expected growth will further dampen expectations that the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee will cut interest rates next week.
The economy has slowed slightly but by nothing like as much as feared and the Office for National Statistics says that "the pattern of growth continues to be broadly unaffected following the EU referendum".
That pattern is however a rather unbalanced one, the only sector of the economy that continued to grow was services up by 0.8%; agriculture, manufacturing production and construction all shrank.
Brexit supporters will take these figures as a sign that warnings about the economic costs of voting to leave the EU were nothing more than scaremongering. Remain supporters will argue that they were warning about potential damage over a period of several years. They say that only prompt action by the Bank of England saved deeper damage to the economy and that worse is to come.
Welcoming the figures, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Phillip Hammond said: "The fundamentals of the UK economy are strong and today's data show that the economy is resilient."
However, Labour's Shadow Treasury Minister, Jonathan Reynolds said: "Continued disappointing, sluggish growth shows the failures of the Tories' economic approach after six years in power, especially for the manufacturing sector which shows little sign of benefiting from lower sterling.
The economy was boosted by a particularly strong performance from the services sector, which grew by 0.8% in the quarter.
Transport, storage and communication was the strongest part of the service sector, growing by 2.2%. That was the fastest pace since 2009 and was helped by a healthy quarter for the UK's film industry. The latest films in the Jason Bourne and Star Trek franchises were released in July along with other popular productions, lifting takings at box offices.
ONS chief economist Jo Grice said "A strong performance in the dominant services industries continued to offset further falls in construction, while manufacturing continued to be broadly flat."
This is the first estimate of economic growth for the period, using less than half the data that will be used for the final estimate.
While growth in the services sector was robust, the construction sector contracted by 1.4% and industrial production fell 0.4%, with manufacturing output down 1%.
"In manufacturing, the contraction in output should be attributed to some unwinding of the massive growth spike seen in the second quarter, rather than industry scaling back production for any referendum related reasons," said Lee Hopley, chief economist at the EEF, the manufacturers' organisation.
"In line with the raft of survey data the GDP estimates confirm that it has been more or less business as usual but it doesn't tell us, however, if this will continue for the foreseeable future."
No in-depth breakdown of consumer spending was released in this set of figures, but Howard Archer, UK economist at IHS Global Insight, said: "It looks certain that third-quarter growth was also heavily dependent on consumers' willingness to keep spending, supported by still decent purchasing power and high employment.
"Consumer spending also clearly benefited from the weakened pound encouraging spending by overseas visitors to the UK. The weakened pound also supported foreign orders for UK goods and services."
However, the "resilient" post-referendum performance does not say anything about the UK's ability to perform outside of the EU, said  Berenberg's senior UK economist, Kallum Pickering.
"Today's data does not alter our long-term view that Brexit will lower UK trend growth, to around 1.8% from 2.2% per year, via less trade, migration and investment with its major market, the EU," he added.


Too much of teachers' time is taken up by "mind-numbingly useless" bureaucracy which saps staff morale and fuels the staffing crisis, says a union leader.

The emphasis on data in England's schools does nothing to boost learning, said Association of Teachers and Lecturers leader Mary Bousted.
Dr Bousted called on the government to cut this workload to make teaching a more attractive profession.
Ministers have promised measures to ease the paperwork burden on teachers.
"The average working week for a teacher is now 60 hours and that average includes the school holidays. So in term time teachers are working excessive hours," Dr Bousted told the BBC  ahead of the ATL conference in Liverpool.
"And the problem is so much of what they're doing isn't related to effective teaching and learning.
"It's just bureaucratic paper filling, data driven, mind-numbingly useless work they're doing for accountability purposes rather than raising standards of teaching and learning."
Dr Bousted urged the government to implement the findings of three reports on teacher workload in England which it published over the Easter weekend.
She warned: "If teachers have no time to relax, no time to recover from what is a very demanding job, then they are leaving the profession.
"Unless we do something about this workload problem then there aren't going to be teachers to teach children."
Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has accepted the findings of the three reports which urge reductions in the time teachers spend on marking, lesson planning and data collection.
Mrs Morgan said she agreed "nothing is more damaging to the profession than wasting the passion and expertise of teachers and school leaders on unnecessary tasks".
Her announcement, over Easter, came as the National Union of Teachers annual conference called for "sustained strike action" over workload.
A survey of 876 ATL members revealed the following views:
"The government needs to sit up and take responsibility for the recruitment crisis," said a primary teacher from Suffolk.
"Policies come in and then go out and we are left focusing on paperwork not the children," said an academy teacher from Wiltshire.
A London head of department said: "My partner is a solicitor in the City. I shouldn't feel like I have less free time than him, he is on three times my pay!"
Dr Bousted urged the government "to accept we are facing a crisis and put credible measures in place that will produce systemic change".


The headquarters of the personal and business arm of HSBC bank will relocate from London to Birmingham, it has been announced.

The bank said about 1,000 jobs will be transferred from the UK capital as part of the move, starting in mid-2017.
Antonio Simoes, of HSBC, described Birmingham as a "growing city" with the "expertise and infrastructure" to support the bank.
Birmingham City Council and Marketing Birmingham both support the move.
The bank is in "advanced negotiations" for a 250-year lease on a new office at Arena Central in the city centre enterprise zone, the city council said.
Arena Central will be built on a 1.5m sq ft (139,366 sq m) site occupied by the Alpha Tower and the Crowne Plaza Hotel.
The council said development of the site is expected to start in June.
Forget about the so called "Northern Powerhouse", more and more companies considering expansion outside the London and southeast are looking seriously at Birmingham.
For years, the second city has been punching below its weight, but now it appears to be attracting some major companies.
Already Deutsche Bank has chosen Birmingham for its recent expansion in trading operations and HS2 Ltd has sited its construction HQ here.
Arena Central is just one of a series of planned developments in the city.
Others, including Paradise Circus and the redevelopment of Snow Hill, should attract even more high-profile companies.
Birmingham was chosen following a review of "a number of possible head office locations," the bank said.
HSBC said it has consulted with the unions and is committed to "supporting employees throughout this process".
The first branch of the Birmingham and Midland Bank opened in the city in 1836. The bank was acquired by HSBC in 1992.


A man died after being stabbed in a suspected altercation in Birmingham.

The man, in his 20s, was found in Moseley Street, Highgate, with suspected stab wounds on Saturday morning. He died on the way to hospital.
A murder investigation is under way and part of the street was cordoned off for forensic checks. CCTV is also being checked.
Anyone with information is urged to contact West Midlands Police.
Det Insp Paul Joyce said: "We are looking into reports there was an altercation, but I would urge anybody with any information to get in contact with me and my team as soon as possible."


The Scottish Salmon Company saw operating profit fall by more than a third in the first quarter, despite increasing its sales.

The firm said profit fell year-on-year from £6.5m to £4.2m, while revenues rose from £27.3m to £29.1m.
Harvested volumes climbed from 6,261 tonnes to 6,741 tonnes.
But earnings per kilo before "fair value adjustment" slumped from 75p in the first three months of last year to just 30p in the first quarter of 2016.
The Edinburgh-based company - one of the country's biggest fish farm businesses - said it had had a "solid start" to the year.
It reported that the majority of its sites performed "in line with expectations" in the first quarter - in contrast to the end of last year, when "weather conditions and routine maintenance" impacted on harvesting.
The firm added that market conditions had been "encouraging" throughout the quarter, with industry prices continuing to rise in response to growing consumer demand and lower output from Chile.
The Scottish Salmon Company has been investing in growing export markets, attending two key trade shows so far this year. Brussels Expo and Seafood Expo North America were the first of 11 shows planned for 2016.
The firm also recently launched its Native Hebridean Salmon product on the international market.
Exports accounted for 43% of total revenues in the quarter.
Scottish Salmon Company managing director Craig Anderson said: "While 2015 was not without its challenges, we secured our second highest volumes and turnover.
"We have continued this positive performance into 2016, demonstrating year-on-year growth and clear progress with our export strategy through marketing and innovation.
"There were fewer external factors impacting on harvesting this quarter and the majority of sites met their projected yield.
"A further 2,000 tonnes of consent is due to become operational this year, increasing harvest volumes as part of our long-term plan for sustainable growth.
"We have enjoyed a solid start to 2016 and, with strong prices forecast for the rest of the year and growing consumer demand, we are well placed to meet our growth targets."
The company slumped to a £405,000 loss last year after facing "challenging" market conditions.


Former British and European heavyweight champion Jack Bodell has died, aged 76.

The Derbyshire-born fighter won amateur honours at light-heavyweight and claimed the British heavyweight title as a professional in October 1969.
He lost the belt to Henry Cooper but won it back in 1971 when a victory over Joe Bugner also secured the Commonwealth and European titles.
His career ended in 1972 after 58 wins and 13 losses, and in later life he suffered with dementia.


Chris McQueens's call-up for England should not be causing the controversy it is, says prop James Graham.

Brisbane-born McQueen, 29, has been called up by Wayne Bennett for the mid-season Test against Samoa on 6 May.
The Gold Coast Titans back-rower and ex-Queensland Origin player qualifies to play through his English father.
"In regards to it being controversial I get where people are coming from, but sport has changed now," said England's Graham, formerly of St Helens.
The Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs forward, 31, told BBC Radio Merseyside; "If Chris wants to play for England, he feels proud to play for England.
"I can only presume that it is Chris that has knocked on Wayne's door rather than the other way around.
"If you have got guys that want to represent their heritage or a part of where they're from then I'm all for that and I'd actively encourage that.
"I've spoken to Australian-born players who qualify for England but some of them don't want to take it on, and some of them do.
"We live in a very multicultural society, people travel, people are born and live in different countries, so I'm all for Chris wanting to play for England - I'm happy he's in the squad and he'll add a lot to us."


Mae dyn 58 oed wedi gwadu treisio a llofruddio merch ysgol yn Y Fflint yn 1976.

Yn Llys y Goron Yr Wyddgrug fe blediodd Stephen Hough yn ddieuog i dri chyhuddiad - o dreisio a llofruddio Janet Commins o'r Fflint, ac un ymosodiad rhyw difrifol.
Cafodd y tri throsedd honedig eu cyflawni rhwng 5 a 12 Ionawr, 1976.
Ymddangosodd Mr Hough yn y llys dim ond i gadarnhau ei enw a gwadu'r cyhuddiadau.
Bydd yr achos yn dechrau ddydd Mawrth.


Former 70s boy band Bay City Rollers have announced a reunion, nearly 30 years after splitting up.

During their heyday, the Scottish group sold 120 million records and had a huge teenage fanbase.
Famed for their tartan outfits, the band had several line-ups over the years.
The reunion features three of the "classic five" - Les McKeown, Alan Longmuir and Stuart Wood - who had hits such as Bye Bye Baby and Shang-a-Lang.
They also performed several sell-out tours and hosted their own TV show.
Wood, McKeown and Longmuir have promised "a very special Christmas present to all the fans that have kept the faith with the band over the years".
It is believed that will include a new album and a comeback show at the Barrowlands in Glasgow in December.
Announcing the reunion at a press conference in Glasgow, singer Les McKeown joked: "You think we're doing it for money but we're doing it for the glory of Scotland and the glory of the tartan.
"Taking the Scottish name all around the globe. That's what we're doing it for - to see our fans again one more time."
The band formed at the end of the 60s and its first incarnation was two Edinburgh brothers, Alan and Derek Longmuir, who formed a band with their school mates.
They conquered the UK, US, Australia and Japan but music journalist Caroline Sullivan told the BBC that by late 1977 their popularity had waned.
"There is obviously a sell-by date for all boy bands and the Rollers were reaching theirs," she said.
"They had a really good run. The fans were growing up and The Rollers themselves were obviously completely fed up with it."
The band finally imploded when McKeown left in 1978 and bitter battles over the money they should have been paid dragged on for years.


The publisher of Nuts magazine announced it has entered into a 30-day consultation with staff about potentially closing the publication.

IPC Media said it would also consider closing its website, Nuts.co.uk.
Nuts' readership, along with other "lads mags" like Zoo and Front, has dropped by more than 70% on average in the last eight years.
Managing Director at IPC Paul Williams said the publisher would give Nuts' staff all the help they needed.
He added: "After 10 years at the top of its market, we have taken the difficult decision to propose the closure of Nuts and exit the young men's lifestyle sector."
Doug McCabe, media analyst at Enders Analysis, said Nuts' closure had been "on the cards for some time".
He said: "Men's magazines have been falling for some time. One reason is the migration of the readership online.
"Also, to put it in macro terms, magazines are much more a female consumption format."
Mr McCabe said male readers were veering away from the "cheeky, slightly smutty" magazines like Nuts, but still opting for men's magazines like GQ or Esquire, which provided more quality writing.
"In the end, people buy Nuts for the pictures and the comedy, but a lot of that they can find online now," Mr McCabe added.


Storms have swept across northern England in the wake of what for many places was the hottest July day on record in the UK.

Up to 40,000 properties in the north-east were left without power after the violent storms struck.
Some properties have been damaged by lightning and vehicles were hit by golf ball-sized hailstones.
Here is a selection of photos shared by BBC News readers and viewers.


Australia says it is sending 600 troops to the Middle East ahead of possible combat operations against Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the deployment, initially to the United Arab Emirates, was in response to a specific US request.
Nearly 40 countries, including 10 Arab states, have signed up to a US-led plan to tackle the extremist group.
France is hosting a regional security summit on Monday.
US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Paris late on Saturday after a four-day tour of the Middle East trying to drum up support for action against IS.
Last week, US President Barack Obama presented a strategy to fight the group in both Iraq and Syria.
Speaking on Sunday, Prime Minister Abbott said Iraq had made it clear that it would "very much welcome" a military contribution to restore security.
He said the force, which will also include up to eight Super Hornet fighter jets, was part of "an international coalition" not simply an "American-Australian operation".
Mr Abbott said no decision had yet been taken to commit the forces, which will begin deploying next week, to combat action.
The announcement comes two days after Australia raised its terrorism threat level from medium to high.
Security officials are thought to be concerned by the growing number of Australians "working with, connected to or inspired by" Islamist groups, Mr Abbott said on Friday.
Islamic State is now in control of large parts of Iraq and Syria and the CIA estimates that the group could have as many as 30,000 fighters in the region.
US air strikes have targeted IS in Iraq in recent weeks and President Obama has vowed to "hunt down" the group after it beheaded two American journalists.
Late on Saturday a video was also released appearing to show the beheading of UK hostage David Haines.
On Monday, French President Francois Hollande will welcome diplomats from up to 20 countries for a conference on Iraqi security.
The talks come ahead of a UN Security Council meeting next week and a heads of state meeting at the UN General Assembly later this month.
One country not attending is Iran, which voiced its unhappiness at not being on the "selective guest list" by dismissing the talks as "just for show".
"What would interest Iran is a real fight against terrorism in the region and around the world, not this selective one," deputy foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told state television.
On Friday, Mr Kerry said the US would not be seeking the involvement of Iran in its coalition because of its "engagement in Syria and elsewhere".
Iran has backed the government of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, while the US and several European and Gulf countries have supported the rebel factions fighting to overthrow him.
The US stance was attacked in Iran, with one senior official accusing the US of playing a "central role" in "arming and training terrorist groups to topple the legal Syrian government".
"In taking a big jump ahead of international bodies, America seeks to emerge as a Hollywood-style hero battling a crisis of its own making," Admiral Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, told state news agency IRNA.
In recent months IS has expanded from its stronghold in eastern Syria and seized control of more towns, cities, army bases and weaponry in Iraq.
The US has already carried out more than 150 air strikes in northern Iraq. It has also sent hundreds of military advisers to assist Iraqi government and Kurdish forces, but has ruled out sending ground troops.


Iron, key for ocean plant plankton growth, shows larger variations than previously recognised, with implications for models of climate.

Microscopic marine plants, phytoplankton, lock up atmospheric carbon dioxide, but a lack of iron limits photosynthesis.
In Nature Communications, researchers report regional iron variations in the oceans of up to 10,000 times.
This observation is expected to improve ocean-climate models.
Photosynthetic life is limited by low availability of iron in as much as one third of Earth's surface oceans. The problem for phytoplankton is particularly acute around the Southern Ocean.
Dr Will Homoky, lead author of the paper by teams at the Universities of Southampton and South Carolina, said: "Iron acts like a giant lever on marine life, storing carbon. It switches on growth of microscopic marine plants, which extract carbon dioxide from our atmosphere and lock it away in the ocean."
In separate studies, scientists have previously added iron to the ocean in iron-limited areas, which typically generates large blooms of phytoplankton. This has been suggested by some as a possible geoengineering solution to capture carbon from the atmosphere and transfer it to the ocean.
It remains unclear what the fate of phytoplankton carbon, at the base of the food chain is, however, and the role of iron for fertilising the oceans is a developing field of research.
Dr Homoky commented: "Satellite images of the oceans show less phytoplankton growth in the eastern South Atlantic off the African coast, than in the western South Atlantic, off South America. Our primary hypothesis is that there are more micronutrients like iron being mixed into the surface ocean from the South American continent than from South Africa."
The key to understanding these variations is now to understand how elements mix into the surface of the ocean, and how this in turn changes ocean life and potentially locks up atmospheric carbon dioxide.


A suspicious package discovered at the main Royal Mail sorting office in Newtownabbey, County Antrim, is "nothing harmful", police have said.

Army bomb experts, police and the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service were called to Enterprise Way in Mallusk after a package containing white powder was found.
But the alert has now ended.
Royal Mail said it has received confirmation that the item was harmless and did not pose a risk to its workers.


Police in Brazil have arrested 18 people in connection with the killing of an indigenous leader last November.

Gunmen shot Nisio Gomes in Mato Grosso do Sul and took away his body, which is still missing.
Police only confirmed his murder last week, after finding that a witness who claimed to have seen him alive had been paid to give false evidence.
Mr Gomes, 59, led a Guarani group which had returned to its land after being evicted by ranchers.
A spokesperson for the federal police in Ponta Pora, in the southern state of Mato Grosso do Sul, said they had arrested 10 people belonging to a private security firm suspected of having been hired to attack Mr Gomes's camp.
The spokesperson said another eight people, six of them landowners, were being held on suspicion of masterminding the attack.
Confession
The police official said there had been a breakthrough in the investigation into Mr Gomes's disappearance when two suspects confessed in exchange for a more lenient sentence.
The suspects said they worked for a private security firm and described being hired by a group of eight people to murder the indigenous leader.
Members of Nisio Gomes's Guarani Kaiowa group had all along described how masked gunmen had broken into their camp and shot their leader in the head, chest, arms and legs, before loading his body into a truck.
Police officials said that "at first we had doubts because there was very little blood in the camp and we had a witness saying he had seen Chief Gomes in Paraguay."
They said their enquiries showed the witness had been paid to give false evidence.
Medical examiners further said that Mr Gomes could have had a cardiac arrest, which would have explained the small amount of blood at the scene.
The Guarani are the largest indigenous group in Brazil, with approximately 46,000 members spread over seven states.
They say they are frequently forced from their ancestral land by farmers, and receive little or no protection from local authorities.


A former bank manager is to stand trial accused of aiding an alleged £112,400 customer account fraud.

Christiane Stoner, 43, is accused of facilitating frauds to be carried out on customer accounts that resulted in a six-figure loss to Barclays Bank.
Prosecutors allege she printed customer information and took images of their signatures from a bank system at a Barclays branch in Stirling.
She is accused of supplying the data and images "to persons unknown".
The alleged offences are said to have taken place in 2013.
Ms Stoner is accused of entering into or becoming concerned in an arrangement which she "knew or suspected" facilitated the acquisition, retention, use or control, by or on behalf of another, of criminal property within the meaning of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.
She is charged with possessing, or having under her control, articles for use in committing fraud, namely images of the signatures of six Barclays Bank customers taken from the bank's system.
Ms Stoner, of Carnbroe, North Lanarkshire, pleaded not guilty to all seven charges at Falkirk Sheriff Court.
Sheriff Robert Dickson continued the case for trial in January.


Theo Walcott scored twice as 10-man Arsenal won their sixth Premier League game in a row, despite a spirited Swansea City display in Bob Bradley's first match as manager.

Gunners and England forward Walcott now has five goals in eight games, taking advantage of a heavy Jordi Amat touch for his first and a poor Jack Cork header for his second.
The Swans looked dejected after the quick-fire double, though Gylfi Sigurdsson pounced on a Granit Xhaka error to curl in and give them hope before the break.
Mesut Ozil volleyed an Alexis Sanchez cross into the top corner to restore a two-goal lead for the hosts, but substitute Borja tapped in from the impressive Modou Barrow's cross to set up a tense finale.
Arsenal saw Xhaka sent off for a petulant trip with 20 minutes left and dug in to earn a win which moves them level on points with league leaders Manchester City.
Defeat leaves Swansea in the bottom three, winless since the opening day and they have now equalled their worst start to a league season. But it would be wrong to be overly negative about this display.
They were competitive early on but two defensive lapses left them facing a deficit they almost clawed back.
Walcott was on hand from close range to punish them and he has now scored as many goals in eight outings as he did in all 28 of his Premier League appearances last season.
The 27-year-old has only ever reached double figures once in a league season, scoring 14 times in the 2012-13 campaign.
But he seemed hungry in front of goal, with six shots - a game high - and showed instinct to sense Amat would have difficulty dealing with a bouncing ball, allowing him to prod the opener.
Walcott's approach play was also sharp - completing 92% of his passes - and he worked hard too, with only Santi Cazorla and Hector Bellerin covering more ground for Arsene Wenger's side.
Late on he missed two one-on-one chances for his hat-trick, the first of which saw him strike the post and watch as the ball rolled agonisingly back across the goalline.
Walcott's late misses were among 16 Arsenal shots - but Swansea managed 13 themselves.
In their previous away fixture against Southampton in September, they managed just six, so there was an undoubted intent on show in Bradley's first game.
The Premier League's first American manager has talked of a "fresh start" for everyone at the club.
Barrow, who has been out on loan twice since joining in 2014, clearly sought to impress as he constantly outwitted Nacho Monreal to deliver crosses, most notably when picking out Borja who finished from 10 yards.
His energy and drive perhaps summed up Swansea's spirit. Yes, they look at risk in the bottom three - but in acting early in the campaign, the club's hierarchy have given Bradley plenty of time to right things.
He may not have been able to match former Swans managers Michael Laudrup, Garry Monk and Francesco Guidolin in winning at Emirates Stadium, but the visiting supporters should leave with optimism.
Read: 'We can be a really good team' - Bradley
Xhaka was Arsenal's main negative during what was at times a thrilling encounter. His error for Sigurdsson's excellent finish gave Swansea a footing, his late kick on Barrow almost put his side under more pressure than they could take.
Wenger said he would not appeal the dismissal but admitted it "made it difficult for us" after watching his goalkeeper Petr Cech save headers from Leroy Fer and Federico Fernandez late on.
The erratic display by his £35m signing may prompt concern, but Wenger should be pleased to see what he called "good solidarity" to hold on for the win.
The recent international break marked 20 years at the club for the Frenchman. With his contract up in the summer, how many more chances will he have to guide Arsenal to their first title since 2004?
His side have trailed for just 52 minutes in the league this season. They have been solid and when questioned by Swansea they found the grit which will undoubtedly be needed if they are to end their title wait.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger: "I have some mixed feelings because it looked at some points comfortable and then it never was.
"We have the same number of points as Manchester City so it's down to us to continue.
"If you look at the game the potential is very interesting but we have to be intelligent enough to improve."
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Swansea manager Bob Bradley: "That game had many different parts. We started poorly.
"Defensively the first two goals were not handled well, but we gave ourselves a real chance.
"We are confident we can turn this around. After the week of training we have just had and the mentality of the team, for me we are going to become a good team."
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Arsenal face Bulgarian side Ludogrets in the Champions League on Wednesday (19:45 BST kick-off) before hosting Middlesbrough at 15:00 next Saturday. Swansea will look to end their run of seven league games without a win when they host Watford next Saturday (15:00).
Match ends, Arsenal 3, Swansea City 2.
Second Half ends, Arsenal 3, Swansea City 2.
Theo Walcott (Arsenal) hits the bar with a right footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain following a fast break.
Laurent Koscielny (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Leroy Fer (Swansea City).
Offside, Arsenal. Kieran Gibbs tries a through ball, but Theo Walcott is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Héctor Bellerín (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Theo Walcott.
Attempt saved. Federico Fernández (Swansea City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Angel Rangel with a cross.
Corner,  Swansea City. Conceded by Héctor Bellerín.
Foul by Theo Walcott (Arsenal).
Jordi Amat (Swansea City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Leroy Fer (Swansea City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kyle Naughton with a cross.
Héctor Bellerín (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Dangerous play by Wayne Routledge (Swansea City).
Theo Walcott (Arsenal) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain following a fast break.
Corner,  Swansea City. Conceded by Laurent Koscielny.
Substitution, Swansea City. Angel Rangel replaces Modou Barrow because of an injury.
Substitution, Arsenal. Kieran Gibbs replaces Mesut Özil.
Substitution, Arsenal. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain replaces Alexis Sánchez.
Offside, Arsenal. Mesut Özil tries a through ball, but Alexis Sánchez is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Gylfi Sigurdsson (Swansea City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Modou Barrow with a cross.
Attempt missed. Theo Walcott (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Nacho Monreal.
Corner,  Swansea City. Conceded by Nacho Monreal.
Attempt blocked. Kyle Naughton (Swansea City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Offside, Arsenal. Alexis Sánchez tries a through ball, but Mesut Özil is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Modou Barrow (Swansea City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Wayne Routledge.
Offside, Swansea City. Gylfi Sigurdsson tries a through ball, but Ki Sung-yueng is caught offside.
Foul by Shkodran Mustafi (Arsenal).
Gylfi Sigurdsson (Swansea City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Francis Coquelin (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Borja Bastón (Swansea City).
Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ki Sung-yueng (Swansea City).
Offside, Arsenal. Alexis Sánchez tries a through ball, but Theo Walcott is caught offside.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Swansea City. Ki Sung-yueng replaces Jack Cork.
Delay in match Modou Barrow (Swansea City) because of an injury.
Granit Xhaka (Arsenal) is shown the red card.
Foul by Granit Xhaka (Arsenal).
Modou Barrow (Swansea City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.


The BBC's network coverage of news from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland has improved since 2008, a study published by the BBC Trust has found.

But the research from Cardiff University also suggested the corporation still faces challenges posed by devolution.
The study looked at the number of news stories devoted to the UK nations during certain periods in 2015 and '16.
It also examined the depth of the coverage and the clarity of reporting.
The original BBC Trust report, published eight years ago, concluded that the corporation needed to improve the range, clarity and precision of its network news coverage of the different UK nations.
A follow-up published in 2010 found there had been "significant improvements" but added that some news reports still did not make clear which part of the UK a story referred to.
The latest research looked at the way stories were covered on the BBC as well as on rival broadcasters.
The study found that the BBC had got better at letting audiences know which stories applied only to England or to England and Wales.
It said the BBC made clear a story only applied to certain locations in 78% of cases - which was "a big improvement in recent years and puts the BBC well ahead of other broadcasters".
But the report added: "Issues remained with the accuracy of the way stories were delineated and signalled to audiences."
The research also showed that overall since 2007 there had been an increase in the extent of BBC network news coverage of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.
Stories from England are still more likely to dominate national bulletins, but the level of coverage from other areas was shown to be well above that of other broadcasters.
In response, the BBC said it would continue to give high priority to reporting the news from across the UK.
It also drew attention to recent initiatives such as the appointment of a Scotland editor and the introduction of a section of the News at Six dedicated to news from the nations.
Richard Ayre, BBC Trustee and chair of the editorial standards committee said: "The Trust's monitoring of the BBC's network journalism during this time has shown some substantial improvements, but devolution rolls on apace - this year alone Parliament at Westminster has agreed to a further transfer of powers to Scotland and is debating greater powers for Wales  - and this represents a growing challenge to UK-wide broadcasters.
"Next year it will be essential for the new BBC board to continue our work and ensure that UK audiences receive BBC news services that best deliver information about, and understanding between, the four home nations."
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More than a hundred riders, including cyclists from Sir Bradley Wiggins' and Madison Genesis' elite teams, have taken part in the first East Cleveland Klondike grand prix.

The 90-mile, figure-of-eight course circled through the area's streets, beginning and ending in Guisborough.
Organisers described it as "a tough one", with three "significant" hills, including Saltburn Bank.
A crash in the peloton brought down a number of riders near the start.
Redcar and Cleveland Council cabinet member Carl Quartermain said the authority was "very excited to be hosting this brand new event".
East Cleveland Big Local chair Mary Lanigan said the race, which precedes the Tour de Yorkshire, was "very prestigious".
Yellow and green bunting, bicycles and knitted cycling jerseys decorated the route through the residential streets of Easington, Saltburn, Carlin How, Liverton Mines, Loftus and other East Cleveland towns and villages,
The British Cycling Spring Cup race was an opportunity for professional riders to prepare for the Tour de Yorkshire later in April.
Three times Olympic Champion Ed Clancy was one of the competitors in the event, which was won by Chris Latham from Team Wiggins.


A car has exploded in a "ball of fire" on the M11 motorway, killing a man.

The vehicle was engulfed in flames at 08:10 GMT on the southbound carriageway at junction 12, near Barton in Cambridgeshire.
A bomb disposal team was sent to the scene. Police said there was nothing to indicate any other vehicle had been involved.
The body and car were recovered by 16:15 GMT, but the carriageway is due to remain closed into the evening.
Stephen Macaulay, who was driving across the flyover near the scene, said: "As you looked down you could just see this unbelievable ball of fire. I've never seen a car on fire like this before
"All you could see was a huge ball of fire with black smoke billowing up out the top of it.
"It was just in the middle of the carriageway and cars were keeping away from it."
Mr Macaulay described it as "really shocking".
"Obviously something exploded, you'd have thoughtâ€¦ you look back at that and you just thought, something's really gone up here," he said.
Cambridgeshire Police said the southbound carriageway closure had been moved back to junction 14 from junction 12.
One lane of the northbound carriageway past the scene is also closed and diversions are in place.
The cause of the fire and identity of the man are not yet known and a police spokeswoman said detectives were "not ruling anything out".


The trailer for the new Star Wars movie has been released.

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The Force Awakens is the seventh film in the franchise and the first of a new trilogy of sequels.
It's not due to be released until 18 December 2015, but a special minute-and-a-half teaser clip was put online on Friday.
The new film is set 30 years after the end of Episode VI, Return of the Jedi.
It brings back original Star Wars characters Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Princess Leia, which is sure to please some life-long fans of the films.
One cinema in Texas, USA, is showing the trailer 17 times in a row and hosting a big discussion between Star Wars experts.


People infected by contaminated NHS blood products should have their compensation nearly doubled, a report to the Scottish government has recommended.

It said those infected with HIV, or who developed advanced Hepatitis C, should get £27,000 per year - the equivalent of the average Scottish salary.
They are currently offered £15,000.
The Scottish government said it had yet to decide whether to implement the new proposals.
Campaigners have been split over the level of payouts, with some saying more money should be found.
The move follows the publication of the findings of the Penrose Inquiry into the contamination of blood supplies in the 1970s and 80s.
Financial support is targeted at people who were infected by their NHS treatment, including haemophiliacs and people who have had blood transfusions.
Many went on to suffer conditions such as liver disease.
The Department of Health recently estimated the number of victims was 30,000 UK-wide.
Under the Scottish proposals, those who have both infections would receive £37,000 per year, an extra £7,000 on present arrangements.
For the first time, widows or widowers would also be supported by an annual pension.
But victims' groups said many people would still miss out on compensation completely.
Philip Dolan, of the Scottish Infected Blood Forum, said: "Disappointment is an understatement.
"It's like thirty pieces of silver paid to Judas to betray Jesus.
"These proposals mean that people are only getting what Lord Ross recommended in 2003. They are only getting what they were due 13 years ago."
Hepatitis C is a virus which damages the liver.
In the early stages most people are unaware they have the infection, and between 15-25% of people will clear the virus from their system naturally.
For the remaining 75-85%, their health will gradually deteriorate.  They may suffer jaundice, drowsiness, and pain.
Drug treatments are effective in just over half of all cases, although new drugs are offering more effective cure rates.
Twenty years after infection, approximately 15% to 20% of the remaining patients will develop cirrhosis or advanced liver disease, which is fatal without a liver transplant.
Those infected with HIV as well as Hepatitis C develop cirrhosis sooner and have a higher risk of death.
He added: "Eighty per cent of people with Hepatitis C are still ill but are not in the advanced stages of the disease therefore they and their spouses will get nothing. Many of them are people who had blood transfusions.
"I'm glad some people are getting this money but do think it's a failure of government to give recognition to the majority of people who got Hepatitis C from a blood transfusion."
Lawyer Patrick McGuire, who represents most of the Scottish victims, welcomed the report.
But he said the grading system which differentiates between victims and the symptoms they have needs to be looked at.
Mr McGuire said: "Until this issue is sorted out, some people with terrible health problems will lose out due to this unfair grading system.
"Another obstacle is that, while this new scheme will give a better standard of living to victims in their daily lives, no progress has been made to compensate people for the monstrous injustice they have suffered in the first place.
"Let us not forget that thousands of Scots, through no fault of their own, have been infected with very serious conditions.
"Many have died, many continue to live lives blighted by pain and uncertainty. It is only right that these people receive settlement for what has been done to them."
A Scottish government spokesman said an announcement would be made on the new recommendations before World Haemophilia Day next April.


The Conservative Party has increased its majority at Wiltshire Council, securing 68 out of 98 seats.

The Liberal Democrats lost two seats, as well as its group leader, while Labour lost one of its four seats and UKIP lost its only one.
Turnout for the county-wide vote was nearly 40%, the council confirmed.
Meanwhile, Labour won two of the three controversial new parish councils in Swindon.
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The Conservatives gained seven seats to hold more than two-thirds of the Wiltshire Council chamber, while the Lib Dems now hold 20, Independents seven and Labour three.
Lib Dem opposition leader Glenis Ansell lost her seat in Calne North to the Tories, but her party did have the satisfaction of winning Melksham Central from UKIP.
Gavin Grant, the Lib Dem councillor for Malmesbury, said it was "desperately sad" to lose Glenis Ansell, but added: "It's very noticeable in areas that voted Remain in last year's referendum we are performing extremely strongly and are well placed to challenge Brexiteer Conservatives."
Baroness Jane Scott, the current Conservative council leader, said the Tories had "started to make inroads into the market towns".
"I've been a councillor for over 20 years and those market towns for a long, long time were dominated by the Liberal Democrats," she said.
"We're just beginning now to really change that, quite considerably, and that's quite important because we don't want a spilt county - rural and urban - we want a totally united county."
In Swindon, Labour won two of three new parish councils created to save borough council funds.
Labour took majorities in the North Central and South Central councils, with the Conservatives winning in West Swindon.
The creation of parish councils was controversial as the Conservative-run borough council created them to transfer the cost of services such as grass cutting and street cleaning.
Critics said the changes were not wanted and would result in council taxpayers paying more.


Bolton Wanderers is appealing to people affected by the Burnden Park disaster to get in touch to become part of the 70th anniversary commemorations.

Thirty-three fans  were crushed to death at Wanderers' former ground on 9 March 1946.
Club chaplain Phil Mason said survivors' stories would be used as part of a special football programme in a week of commemorations.
The club is also holding a memorial service to honour the dead.
Rev Mason said: "Already we've had a number of people who have come forward; some young people who were involved in the crush and passed over the heads of the crowd; people who have lost their loved ones; and how it has affected their lives all these years later."
Some 400 people were injured in the incident, which happened during the second leg of an FA Cup quarter-final tie against Stoke City.
Some of the 33 dead were crushed against steel barriers which gave way. Others were trampled to death.
Play stopped, but once the dead and injured had been removed, it continued.
An inquiry led to recommendations that the numbers of spectators allowed into a ground should be limited.
The club moved to a new ground, now called the Macron Stadium, in 1997 when Burnden Park was redeveloped and turned into a retail park.
A plaque to those who died was unveiled in a supermarket at the exact site of the disaster, by the late Bolton legend Nat Lofthouse in 2000.
The disaster was British football's worst until superseded by the deaths of 66 people in the 1971 Ibrox Stadium tragedy during a Glasgow Rangers home game.
It was the biggest loss of life at an English football ground until the 1989 Hillsborough tragedy which cost the lives of 96 spectators.


A man who won a £101m Euromillions jackpot does not have to "cough up" financial support for his son "whenever asked", a court has ruled.

Former factory worker Dave Dawes, 53, from Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, and his wife Angela, 49, won the money in 2011.
Central London County Court heard Mr Dawes' son Michael, 32, was given £1.6m, but funds stopped after a row.
He was seeking a ruling that his father and stepmother must financially support him for the rest of their lives.
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Judge Nigel Gerald said Michael "was provided with the funds to have a comfortable life" but instead behaved like a "profligate son" who expected his father to bail him out.
The court heard the former naval officer and his civil partner James Beedle, 34, gave up their jobs and spent nearly £1.6m over two years.
This included £500,000 on a house in Portsmouth and nearly £250,000 on Mr Beedle's family and their friends.
At one point the pair were spending between £20,000 and £30,000 a month, which the judge said was "astonishing" and "way outside their means".
The court heard his father regularly topped up his funds when he ran out of money.
The judge said Mr Dawes was "baffled" when Michael asked for more funds in April 2012 after being given £1m shortly after the win in October 2011.
"Michael took this as a demonstration that his father would cough up whenever asked, and this therefore buttressed his strange conclusion that his dad would financially support him for the rest of his life," the judge said.
Michael was serving in Afghanistan when his father rang him to tell him of the win.
He told the court the factory shift supervisor promised he "would always be looked after".
By March 2013, Michael and Mr Beedle were told some of their debts would be paid off "but there would be nothing more".
This came after Mrs Dawes' 49th birthday party in November 2013, when a drunken row broke out between the father and son.
The judge ruled that Mr Dawes' previous "largesse" did not give rise to an expectation of further bail-outs.
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Dumfriesshire Labour MSP Elaine Murray has revealed her support for Jeremy Corbyn in the contest to become her party's new UK leader.

She also congratulated Kezia Dugdale and Alex Rowley on their election as Scottish leadership team.
Ms Murray said many of her friends in the party would "strongly disagree" with her support for Mr Corbyn.
But in a Facebook post, she said that like him she wanted to see a "kinder, more inclusive politics".
"He is criticised for breaking the whip - if he is leader he will have to respect and listen to others who don't agree with him," she added.
"He will need to forge consensus within and outside the Labour Party.
"The macho, confrontational style of British politics alienates so many people who care about the issues but hate the rhetoric."
She also welcomed the appointments of Ms Dugdale and Mr Rowley.
"They are brave to put themselves forward at a difficult time for Scottish Labour. They deserve our support and should not shoulder the blame if we don't form the next Scottish government," she said.
"Being a constructive and effective opposition is probably a much more achievable aim."


Crowdfunded ads that aim to put pressure on a US regulator before it proposes new net neutrality rules have appeared in Washington DC.

The campaign was organised by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian.
It urges people to phone the watchdog and oppose it allowing telecom firms to charge for prioritised data delivery.
The Federal Communications Commission's five-member board will decide whether to proceed with drafted guidelines on Thursday.
Ahead of the vote, the FCC's senior lawyer hosted a Twitter chat in which she provided further details about the draft document being considered, which has not yet been made public.
Gigi Sohn tweeted that the document "asks if paid prioritization should be banned outright & seeks comment on best ways 2 protect innovators".
She added that the public would be given 60 days to comment on the proposals, and a further 60 to reply to others' posts before the FCC made a final decision.
But critics fear that the "open internet" proposals will fail to prevent the broadband firms charging content providers for a premium data transmission option.
"[They will] kill the idea of net neutrality and replace it with a 'cable-ised' version that costs more for consumers, enables discrimination across services that make use of the net, and makes it harder to access the stuff that we access each day today (from video streaming to file saving and sharing)," wrote Mr Ohanian.
"On top of all that, it'd have a chilling effect on entrepreneurship - all for the benefit of a few cable companies."
The adverts have been placed at 30 bus stops in the US capital after a fundraising effort on Crowdtilt's website raised more than $21,000 (Â£12,520).
Electronic versions of the ad are also being shared across social media.
However, Mr Ohanian was not able to achieve his original plan to place the ad on a billboard "right in the FCC's backyard" - mirroring a similar tactic mounted against the author of a controversial anti-piracy law.
The FCC denies it is deliberately trying to destroy the principle of net neutrality but argues that it needs to clarify regulations after a court ruling earlier this year.
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia sided with telecoms firm Verizon in January after the firm challenged the FCC's previous instruction that broadband providers must treat all traffic equally.
Since then both Verizon and Comcast, another cable firm, have begun charging Netflix for direct access to their networks to ensure that its TV shows and movies are delivered at high speeds to avoid the problem of buffering.
"Right now there r no rules 2 protect open internet," tweeted Ms Sohn during the Twitter chat.
"Chairman wants 2 ensure all Americans can get unfettered access 2 the content & application they want."
The FCC's chairman, Tom Wheeler, added that one "viable option" being considered was to have broadband internet access reclassified as a Title II "telecommunications service" rather than its current status as an "information service".
Doing so would potentially allow the regulator to block priority-access deals.
However, telecoms industry leaders have questioned whether the FCC has the power to do this, and warned of negative consequences.
"America's economic future... critically depends on continued investment and innovation in our broadband infrastructure and app economy to drive improvements in health care, education and energy," 28 of the industry's leaders wrote in a letter to the watchdog.
"Under Title II, new service offerings, options, and features would be delayed or altogether foregone.
"An era of differentiation, innovation, and experimentation would be replaced with a series of 'Government may I?' requests from American entrepreneurs."
Mr Wheeler has said another option would be to try to block deals that were not "commercially viable" by making reference to a section of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
However, the Save The Internet Campaign - supported by Mr Ohanian - suggests that this tactic would be destined to fail.
"If and when the FCC tried to prevent bad deals, the agency would lose again in court," it said.
"The revisions to Wheeler's [earlier] draft are encouraging on one level. They show that the chairman is trying to respond to the massive protests against his proposal. He just isn't listening closely enough."


Campaigners are calling for a 20mph (32km/h) speed limit through an Oxfordshire village which they say is being used as a rat-run by motorists.

Some Islip residents say problems have been made worse since a major overhaul of the A40's Cutteslowe and Wolvercote roundabouts began last month.
Islip Traffic Group described the situation as "dangerous".
The county council said it would support the move, but said it was unable to provide funding.
As well as a reduction to the current 30mph (48km/h) speed limit, campaigners want temporary traffic lights on the River Ray bridge during the A40 works.
Dennis Price, from Islip Traffic Group, said there had been a "very noticeable" increase in traffic though the village, with people finding it difficult to cross the bridge and the B4027.
Oxfordshire County Council said it had "fully engaged" with the parish council and understood its views.
It said it had "not reached a conclusion" on providing temporary signals on the bridge, but said traffic flows were likely to change in September.
"The council needs to be confident that any expenditure in these areas will bring about the desired results."


Ben Stokes is entering virtually unique territory for an England cricketer in that he is as much of a batsman as a bowler.

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Ian Botham is widely regarded as England's greatest all-rounder, but his main strength was his bowling. Stokes is getting to the stage where he really is a genuine batsman.
You are then entering the territory of Jacques Kallis, although there is some way to go before Stokes, 25, gets near what the great South African achieved.
You have to pay tribute to England assistant coach Paul Farbrace, who moved Stokes up to number six against New Zealand in May last year when he was in temporary charge of the side before Trevor Bayliss took over.
Farbrace saw his potential and gave him the opportunity to take that place. The development of Stokes as a batsman since then has been outstanding.
His natural tendency is to be aggressive but he's got a very sound technique. He is an absolute diamond as far as England are concerned and a serious opponent for bowlers.
Towards the end of his 128 on the second day of the first Test against India, he was affected by cramp, which made him rather tentative and slowed him down.
Up to that point, he had a bit of luck and should have been out a couple of times when he was dropped by wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha, but that happens sometimes.
Stokes' four Test centuries have been scored on four different continents and any international cricketer wants to show his value by being able to play away from home.
Most people are adept at playing in their own familiar conditions but it is only through travelling abroad and adjusting your approach and technique that you really prove your worth as an international cricketer. Achieving that speaks volumes for the talent he has.
Stokes is a talismanic character. He can take the game by the scruff of the neck and is someone who commands respect. When you see him wandering around, he will look you straight in the eye and always say hello with a friendly smile.
He draws people to him in the same way Botham did. There is no doubt that Stokes is one of those very commanding figures who leads people, who takes people with him.
He is a hard man - I wouldn't like to cross Ben Stokes - and his opponents know that too. He is never shy of a few words on the field when he is bowling.
When he does get to bowl on day three in this game, one hopes he will be awkward to face with some reverse swing.
He has not bowled yet because of his hamstring and there are not enough overs on the ball. I think we will see the ball chucked to him around lunchtime on Friday - hopefully it will reverse swing and he will be dangerous.
The way that India batted to reach 63-0 in reply to England's 537 demonstrates that it is a very good pitch to bat on.
England did not get a wicket but there were a couple of positive moments. Moeen Ali got a ball to ruffle the top of the pitch and spin sharply between bat and pad. Adil Rashid bowled a beauty of a googly to Gautam Gambhir and not many people pick his googlies. It is good - it is quite well hidden and it spins.
There are signs there that if England do get enough balls in the right place and they have a little bit of luck, they could bowl India out.
It is going to be hard work as there is very little there for the seamers at the moment. The spinners have got to build some pressure without giving too many runs away. They went for five an over in Bangladesh and they simply cannot afford to do that here.
If they can get one or two early wickets, that will hopefully make India more wary and it will do the confidence of the spinners a lot of good.
It is only a week on Sunday since England were bowled out in a session in Bangladesh and everyone was thinking 'what on earth are they going to do against India?' Well, they had some luck with the toss and those three catches that went down early in England's innings, but they have managed to capitalise on that.
It has gone well so far but it is only two days out of 25 in this series and there is an awful long way to go.
Jonathan Agnew was speaking to BBC Sport's Alan Jewell.


An advert for bikini line shaving products has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), which found it was likely to cause "serious or widespread offence".

The Femfresh advert featured women, wearing briefs and swimwear, dancing.
Shown on ITV and Channel 4 on-demand services earlier this year, it included close-up shots of the women's crotches.
The ASA received 17 complaints that the advert objectified women and portrayed them in an overly sexualised way.
Church & Dwight UK - the brand which owns Femfresh - did not believe the advert for the so-called "intimate shaving collection" was offensive or socially irresponsible.
It said it was aimed at a target audience of 18 to 34-year-old women and that close-ups were used to illustrate that the product could give consumers a smooth bikini line.
Neither Channel 4 or ITV received any complaints about the advert directly and both agreed with comments made by Church & Dwight that it did not objectify women.
But the ASA noted that the dance sequence was "highly sexualised", there were "few shots" of the women's faces and the high-cut swimsuits "were more exposing" than most.
"Even taking into account the nature of the product, we considered that it had been presented in an overly-sexualised way that objectified women," the ASA said.
"We concluded that the ad was likely to cause serious or widespread offence and therefore breached the code."
It ruled that the advert must not appear again in its current form.