Desk Report
Publish: 18 Jul 2022, 09:20 pm
Ben Stokes || Photo: Collected
England
test cricket captain Ben Stokes will retire from one-day internationals after
Tuesday’s match with South Africa, ending an ODI career which peaked with
winning the World Cup in 2019.
Stokes
said Monday he remains fully committed to Twenty20 internationals as well as
the test captaincy, but that he needed a break from the punishing schedule.
“As
hard as a decision as this was to come to, it’s not as hard dealing with the
fact I can’t give my teammates 100% of myself in this format anymore. The
England shirt deserves nothing less from anyone who wears it,” Stokes said in a
statement.
“Three
formats are just unsustainable for me now. Not only do I feel that my body is
letting me down because of the schedule and what is expected of us, but I also
feel that I am taking the place of another player who can give (England ODI
captain) Jos (Buttler) and the rest of the team their all.”
The
match against South Africa will be Stokes’ 105th ODI for England and comes at
the Riverside ground at Chester-le-Street, the home of Stokes’ county team
Durham.
Stokes’
defining performance in ODIs came in the 2019 World Cup final, when he scored
84 not out as England tied New Zealand’s score and then eight more runs in the
deciding super over.
Since
taking over the test captaincy in April, Stokes and Coach Brendon McCullum have
transformed the team with an aggressive, big-hitting style more reminiscent of
ODI and T20 cricket than the often-sedate five-day format._AP
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