Benjamin Andrew Stokes was born on 4 June 1991 and is an English international cricketer who is the captain of the England Test team and plays for the England Twenty20 International team.
82 Facts About Ben Stokes
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Ben Stokes made his T20I debut in 2011, his Test debut in 2013, and played for England's One Day International team from 2011 before retiring from the format in July 2022.
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Ben Stokes was part of the England team that won the 2019 Cricket World Cup, top-scoring in England's innings in the final before batting in the tied Super Over, winning the Man of the Match award.
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Ben Stokes was named the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World in 2019,2020 and 2023, and won the ICC Award for Best Men's Cricketer and BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award in 2019.
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Ben Stokes was appointed captain of England's Test team in April 2022.
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Ben Stokes was part of the England team that won the 2022 T20 World Cup, top-scoring in the final.
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An all-rounder, Ben Stokes is a left-handed middle-order batsman and right-arm fast bowler.
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Benjamin Andrew Stokes was born on 4 June 1991 in Christchurch, New Zealand, the son of rugby league player and coach Gerard Stokes, and has some Maori ancestry.
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Ben Stokes moved to England at the age of 12 after his father was appointed head coach of Workington Town rugby league club, and grew up in the small West Cumbrian town of Cockermouth, attending Cockermouth School and playing cricket for Cockermouth Cricket Club.
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Ben Stokes made his one-day debut for Durham in 2009 at The Oval and managed to take the wicket of the highly experienced batsman Mark Ramprakash with only his third delivery in professional cricket.
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Ben Stokes played in two youth Tests against Bangladesh U19 during 2009, in which he made a half-century and took a few wickets.
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Ben Stokes then went on to play in the 2010 Under-19 World Cup, during which he scored a century against the India Under-19 team.
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Ben Stokes made his first-class debut for Durham against the Marylebone Cricket Club during the traditional season opener, which for 2010 was taking place at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi.
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Ben Stokes made his maiden first-class century against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge on 13 May 2010.
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Ben Stokes has featured for Durham in the Clydesdale Bank 40-over competition.
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Durham's continuing problems with many players becoming injured at the start of the 2010 season meant that Ben Stokes continued playing in all forms of the game for Durham.
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Ben Stokes was a key member of the Durham side that won the 2013 County Championship, and was named Man of the Match in the final of the 2014 Royal London One-Day Cup Final at Lord's, having scored 38* and taken 2 wickets in a low-scoring game against Warwickshire.
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On 2 January 2015, Ben Stokes joined the Melbourne Renegades of Australia's Big Bash League for the remainder of the season as a replacement for Jesse Ryder, who was ruled out due to an injury.
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On 13 February 2017, Ben Stokes was appointed vice-captain of England's test team, deputising under Joe Root, who was made captain the same day.
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On 6th May 2022, Ben Stokes marked his return to Durham with a record-breaking 161 from 88 balls on day two of the County Championship game against Worcestershire that included him scoring 34 runs runs in a single over.
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In said over, Ben Stokes hit five consecutive sixes but failed to make clean contact with the final delivery of the over, getting only a one-bounce four causing him to miss out on becoming only the third cricketer in history to score six sixes in an over of first-class cricket.
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Ben Stokes has been part of the Northern Superchargers squad since the inaugural season of The Hundred in 2021 but has only made two appearances for them so far.
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In February 2017, Ben Stokes was bought by Rising Pune Supergiants to play in the Indian Premier League during the 2017 season.
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Ben Stokes made his maiden Twenty20 century against Gujarat Lions, hitting 103 not out from 63 balls, including hitting seven fours and six sixes.
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Ben Stokes was named as Most Valuable Player for the 2017 season.
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Ben Stokes pulled out of the 2022 edition as he wanted to focus on his country's Test team.
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Ben Stokes was bought by Chennai Super Kings to play in the IPL 2023 season for INR.
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Ben Stokes made his senior England debut in a One Day International against Ireland in August 2011.
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Ben Stokes was caught and bowled by Paul Stirling for just three runs and did not bowl; however, he did take a catch.
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Ben Stokes became the 658th player to represent England at Test level.
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Ben Stokes made his debut in the 2nd Test and took the wickets of Michael Clarke and Peter Siddle before contributing 1 run in England's first innings.
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Ben Stokes was selected in the 3rd Test and took the wicket of Brad Haddin, he then made 18 off 57 deliveries.
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Ben Stokes took a career-best 6 wickets for 99 runs in the first innings of the 5th Test, including the major wickets of captain Clarke for 10 and top-scorer for the innings Steve Smith for 115.
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Ben Stokes top scored for England with 47 runs in the first innings to help England limp to 155 all out.
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Ben Stokes enjoyed a solid series finishing as England's third-highest run scorer with 279 runs and second-highest wicket taker with 15 wickets.
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Ben Stokes was the only English batsman to score a hundred in the series.
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Ben Stokes was praised for his batting efforts on a typical fast and bouncy Waca surface against the hostile fast bowling of Mitchell Johnson at the height of his bowling powers.
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Ben Stokes became only the sixth batsman to be given out in this manner in an ODI game.
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Ben Stokes scored 41 in the fourth ODI which England won by 3 wickets.
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Ben Stokes was named in the England test squad for the tour against Pakistan hosted in the UAE.
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Ben Stokes suffered a shoulder injury in the third and final test in Sharjah, but still batted at number 11 as England ultimately lost the match and with it the series.
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Ben Stokes returned to full fitness to take his place in England's winter tour of South Africa.
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Ben Stokes then hit a career-best score of 258, which included 30 fours and 11 sixes.
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Ben Stokes's sixth wicket stand with Jonny Bairstow of 399 was a new world record, of which 196 were scored in 25 overs in the morning session on Day 2 alone.
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Ben Stokes' innings was ended in bizarre fashion, when after hitting two successive sixes, he was dropped by AB de Villiers only to be run out having paused between the wickets.
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Ben Stokes took one wicket in India's first innings, before making an unbeaten 29.
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Ben Stokes was out for six in England's second innings as they lost by 246 runs.
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Ben Stokes was named in the ODI XI of the year 2016 by Cricinfo.
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Ben Stokes scored his second ODI century against South Africa in the lead-up to the Champions Trophy, and in the tournament itself his third, against Australia.
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Ben Stokes was named as part of the 'Team of the Tournament' at the 2017 Champions Trophy by the ICC.
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Ben Stokes scored 299 runs, including a century at The Oval, and took 7 wickets in a four Test series against South Africa.
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Ben Stokes produced multiple standout performances with the bat later in the group stage.
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Ben Stokes was left stranded on 82*, as England were bowled out for 212 in a surprise 20-run defeat to Sri Lanka.
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Ben Stokes again proved to be the only resistance to Australia's bowling attack in their following match, by scoring 89 runs in a chase of 286.
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Ben Stokes then batted in the super over with Jos Buttler, which again was a tie, but England won the match on the boundary countback rule then in place.
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Ben Stokes was named in the "Team of the Tournament" for the 2019 World Cup by the ICC.
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Ben Stokes managed to overturn an overnight Australian lead, hitting 11 fours and 8 sixes to win with an unbeaten 135* in a record pursuit of 359.
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Ben Stokes's innings has been described as "one of the greatest innings of all time" and the "greatest ever played by an Englishman".
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Ben Stokes's innings was rated by Wisden as the Greatest hundred of the decade.
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Ben Stokes was named as England's player of the series as he ended the series as England's top run-scorer with 441 runs with 2 hundreds and 2 fifties, while taking 8 wickets.
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Ben Stokes continued on his good form into the tour of New Zealand.
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Ben Stokes made scores of 91 and 28 as England slumped to an innings defeat in the first test match of the series.
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Ben Stokes then made 26 runs in his only innings in the next test, as England drew the match to lose the series.
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Ben Stokes was named as the 2019 BBC Sports Personality of the Year, ICC Player of the Year at the 2019 ICC Awards.
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Ben Stokes' form continued into 4-test match tour of South Africa, as he was named player of the series after scoring 318 runs and taking 10 wickets.
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Ben Stokes made scores of 47 and 72, with the latter from only 47 balls, to set South Africa a target of 437.
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Ben Stokes then managed to break the host's resistance, as they fought to draw the game, by taking the final 3 wickets to bowl them out for 248 runs to level the series.
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Ben Stokes only made 2 and 28 runs in the final test, but he did take 4 wickets in the match, as England won by 191 runs to secure a second consecutive away series win against South Africa.
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On 17 June 2020, Ben Stokes was included in England's 30-man squad to start training behind closed doors for the Test series against the West Indies.
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Ben Stokes was named as captain for one of the teams in the official inter-squad warm-up match.
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Ben Stokes had not played against Sri Lanka due to injury, leaving him as the most senior player for the Pakistan ODI matches, for which he was named captain.
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Ben Stokes led the inexperienced team, in which he had almost four times as many ODI appearances as the rest of the team combined, to a nine-wicket victory in the first match.
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On 30 July 2021, it was announced that Ben Stokes would take an "indefinite break" from cricket.
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On 28 April 2022, Ben Stokes was named as England men's Test captain after Joe Root's resignation.
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On 18 July 2022, Ben Stokes announced that he would retire from ODI cricket following the first match of the series against South Africa, citing the physical and mental demands of playing all three formats.
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In 2022 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Final, Ben Stokes scored an unbeaten 52* runs which helped England to win the World Cup by defeating Pakistan.
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Ben Stokes added that "hopefully this donation can go towards the rebuilding of areas of Pakistan most affected by the flooding".
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Ben Stokes has a tattoo of a family of lions, symbolising his own family, covering his entire back.
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Ben Stokes has Maori Ngapuhi heritage, which is shown in one of his tattoos.
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Ben Stokes lost his apparel sponsorship with New Balance over these incidents.
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Ben Stokes was charged on 15 January 2018 with affray along with the two other men, and appeared before Bristol Magistrates' Court on 13 February 2018.
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In September 2018, Ben Stokes was charged with bringing the game into disrepute by the England and Wales Cricket Board over the incident in Bristol and social media posts.