England Take a look at captain Ben Stokes has taken the shock resolution to retire from one-day internationals and can bow out with a last match at his dwelling floor of Chester-le-Avenue on Tuesday.
Stokes has loved a number of excellent moments within the 50-over format and the undoubted peak got here with a star flip within the 2019 World Cup last, main England to an unbelievable win over New Zealand at Lord’s.
Right here, the The Cricket Paper seems at Stokes’ 5 finest performances in an ODI shirt.
5. England v New Zealand – July 14, 2019
Tied scores, tremendous over, boundary countback. None of it will have occurred with out a tour de pressure innings for the ages from Stokes as he rescued England from extra World Cup last heartache. As wickets tumbled round him, Stokes hustled and battled his solution to 84 not out to maintain his aspect afloat earlier than defying fatigue to return for the one-over shootout as England gained by “the barest of all margins”.
4. England v South Africa – Could 30, 2019
“No approach! No, no approach! You can’t try this, Ben Stokes.” Nasser Hussain captured the temper of each onlooker after Stokes’ exceptional leap and one-handed seize to dismiss Andile Phehlukwayo in England’s World Cup opening 104-run win. He top-scored with 89 and took two for 12 as his golden summer season began with a bang however that catch on the Kia Oval was one of many spotlight reel moments of the match.
3. Australia v England – January 24, 2014
Stokes’ defiance was one of many few positives from the 2013-14 Ashes. Weeks after a breakout century in Perth – England’s solely ton in the course of the Take a look at collection – he returned to the WACA to place Australia to the sword once more. He adopted up his 70 with the important thing wickets of Australia captain George Bailey, big-hitting Glenn Maxwell and harmful lower-order pair James Faulkner and Mitchell Johnson in a 57-run win.
2. England v Australia – June 10, 2017
England had already assured development to the Champions Trophy semi-finals however have been in peril of dropping their last group match, slipping to 35 for 3 chasing 280 when Stokes walked out to bat at Edgbaston. Not one to relaxation on his laurels, he thumped 13 fours and two sixes in a sometimes assertive 102 not out that sealed a one-sided victory. Remarkably this was his third and last ODI century.
1. India v England – March 26, 2021
Statistics can obscure the larger image and this was definitely the case with Stokes. Jonny Bairstow’s century led England to a six-wicket victory in Pune however Stokes’ jaw-dropping belligerence in his 99 off 52 balls was charming. There have been 10 sixes in complete in a whirlwind innings that was an ideal demonstration of England’s adherence to captain Eoin Morgan’s adventurous method to batting.
