Ben Stokes The Best All-Rounder
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Ben Stokes The Best All-Rounder
Personal Information
Benjamin Andrew Stokes was born on 4 June 1991.He is an English international cricketer and current vice-captain of the England Test Team.Stokes was part of the England squad that won the 2019 Cricket World Cup.He is a left handed batsman and a right arm fast medium bowler.
International Career
Ben Stokes made his senior England debut in a ODI against Ireland in August 2011.Stokes was caught and bowled by Paul Stirling for just 3 runs and did not bowl.However, he did take a catch.
Stokes continued in the limited overs side for the ODI series against India in 2011.In the first two games of the series stokes did not play or bowl.An injury to stokes meant that he was not able to bowl in the series,and so was picked as a batsman only.In the third match Stokes hit 20 as England won the match by 3 wickets.In the fourth match of the series,Stokes only managed seven runs as the match ended on a draw on the Duckworth-lewis method.He was selected to make his Twenty20 International debut against the West Indies.In the second match he batted at number 3, scoring 31 runs although England lost by 25 runs.He played in two Twenty matches against New Zealand,although injury again meant he could not bowl.He scored 9 not out in the first game,although England narrowly lost.He did not bat in the second rain affected match.
After missing the series against Sri lankha to be given more time to recover from his injury,Stokes returned to the squad for the test series against India.He was selected as an all rounder for a first test at Trent Bridge, taking 281 in the first innings.He was out for a Duck when batting as England took a first innings lead thanks to a record partnership from Joe Root and James Anderson.Stokes failed to pick up a wicket in the second innings as the match finished in a draw.He kept his place in the team for the next test at Lords and took figures of 2-40 in the first innings.However, his poor form with the bat continued as he was dismissed for another duck.Although he picked up figures of 3-51 in Indias second inning, he was again unable to register a score with the bat as he made his first consecutive duck as England lost the match by 95 runs.Stokes was dropped for the next test, with Chris Jordan and Chris Woakes coming in to the side.England won the final three matches of the series, although stokes was not involved in any of them.He returned for the ODI series, although he was expensive in the first game of the series finishing with the figures of 0-54 in seven overs.He made 23 with the bat as England lost the match.In the next match he made just two runs, before taking figures of 1-231 as England suffered another defeat.After being dropped for the next match, he returned in the final match of the series, making an impressive 33 with the bat before taking figures of 3-47 as England won their first match of the series.
Records and Achievements
* Man of the final in cricket world cup 2019.
*Second fastest test double hundred in terms of ball faced.
* Fastest 250 in tests for which he took 196 balls.
* Second highest number of sixes in a Test inning-11 sixes.
* Most runs in the first session of a day in Tests-130 runs.
* Most runs in a Test innings at the sixth position-258 runs.
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