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CSK said England Test captain Ben Stokes has left the franchise to prepare for England's upcoming home summer

The biggest rule pertains to an Impact Player, giving teams a chance to bring in a substitute player at any time during the game this IPL season.

Ben Stokes will play as a specialist batter during the initial phase of the Indian Premier League 2023 in order to manage his knee injury

England's talismanic all-rounder Ben Stokes had an excellent year in the whites of international Test cricket.

London: Star England all-rounder and 2019 Word Cup final hero Ben Stokes on Monday made a surprise announcement to retire from ODI cricket, saying playing three formats has become “unsustainable” for him. The 31-year-old Stokes will play his last ODI against South Africa at his home ground in Durham on Tuesday. Stokes’ ODI career will […]

Birmingham: England captain Ben Stokes won the toss and elected to bowl against India in the rescheduled fifth Test, starting here on Friday. With skipper Rohit Sharma ruled out after testing positive for COVID-19, Jasprit Bumrah will be India’s 36th Test captain. Shubman Gill is the only specialist opener while Shardul Thakur as seamer all-rounder […]

London: Ben Stokes was appointed as captain of England’s Test cricket team on Thursday, taking on the high-pressure role just a few months after returning from a long spell away from the game to protect his mental health. The all-rounder was the only credible option to replace Joe Root, who quit his position — which […]

Hyderabad: T20 cricket is a game of small margins. The cliché never gets old. Given the volatility of the shortest format of the game, every second of the game is crucial to its outcome. One error can cost dearly, turning players into villains instantly, especially in big-ticket events like the World Cup. Though players strive […]

The former Indian captain reeled off answers on his favourite topic fielding in Twitter

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ECB has said that Stokes has taken the break to also rest his left index finger, "which has not fully healed since his return to competitive cricket earlier this month"

Opener Haseeb Hameed, whose last Test was against India in 2016, was also named in the squad.

Stokes to lead revised team against Pakistan

A repeat X-ray and CT scan revealed that the 29-year-old has a fracture in his left index finger, an injury that he picked up during the ongoing IPL

Rajasthan will be banking heavily on their swashbuckling all-rounder Ben Stokes

England did not throw it away like the opening game and capitalised on a flying start provided by Bairstow (124 off 112) and Jason Roy (55 off 52) to gun down the target in just 43.3 overs with six wickets in hand

The incident occurred in the fourth over, when Stokes was found to have applying saliva on the ball and promptly the on-field umpires Nitin Menon and Virender Sharma warned skipper Jos Buttler

"Players are totally committed to England and I think that was emphasised last week when a few of us went down with illness that made operating in 41 degree heat particularly taxing," Stokes said

England dominated the first two sessions and India looked in all sorts of trouble before Pant (101 off 118 balls) suddenly decided to catch the opposition by the scruff of their necks

India ended the session on 153/6 with Rishabh Pant (36) and Washington Sundar (1) in the middle.