Benjamin Andrew Stokes OBE aka Ben Stokes was born in England on June 4, 1991. He is an international cricketer who plays for the England Twenty20 International (T20I) team and is the captain of the England Test team. He plays for Durham in local cricket, and he has played in many Twenty20 leagues around the world.
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Stokes was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, but he grew up in England. He played his first Twenty20 International (T20I) in 2011, and his first Test in 2013. Ben also played for England’s One Day International (ODI) team from 2011 until July 2022. He was on the England team that won the 2019 Cricket World Cup. In the final, he scored the most runs for England and then batted in the tied Super Over, which earned him the Man of the Match award.
Early life of Ben Stokes:
Benjamin Andrew Stokes was born on June 4, 1991, in Christchurch, New Zealand. He is the son of Gerard “Ged” Stokes, a rugby league player and coach, and has some Mori ancestry. Stokes moved to England when he was 12 because his father was hired as the head coach of the Workington Town rugby league club. He grew up in Cockermouth, a small town in West Cumbria, where he went to Cockermouth School and played cricket for the Cockermouth Cricket Club. As a 15-year-old member of the club, he won the North Lancashire & Cumbria Cricket League Premier Division title in 2006. His parents then went back to New Zealand to live in Christchurch. On December 8, 2020, Ged Stokes died in New Zealand from brain cancer.
Domestic career of Ben Stokes:
In 2009, Stokes played his first one-day game for Durham at The Oval. With his third delivery, he got the batter Mark Ramprakash out, who was a very experienced player. In 2009, he played in two youth Tests against Bangladesh U19. In those games, he scored 50 runs and took a few wickets. Then he played in the Under-19 World Cup in 2010, where he scored a hundred against the India Under-19 team.
Stokes was a key part of the Durham team that won the 2013 County Championship. He was also named Man of the Match in the 2014 Royal London One-Day Cup Final at Lord’s, where Durham played Warwickshire in a low-scoring game in which Stokes scored 38* and took 2 wickets. Stokes has been on the Northern Superchargers team since the first season of The Hundred in 2021, but he has only played two games for them so far. Even though he missed the whole 2022 season of the tournament, the Superchargers kept him on their team on February 15, 2023, before the next season.
Ben Stokes in Indian Premier League
Rising Pune Supergiants bought Stokes in February 2017 so he could play in the Indian Premier League in 2017. He got his first Twenty20 century against Gujarat Lions. Ben hit 103 not out from 63 balls, including seven fours and six sixes. He was named the 2017 season’s Most Valuable Player. Stokes went to Rajasthan Royals for the 2018 season. He was the most expensive player at the 2018 IPL auction, where he was bought for £1.7 million. In October 2020, he made 107 runs without being out for Rajasthan Royals. He did this with Sanju Samson, and the two of them put up 152 runs without losing. During the 2021 IPL, stokes hurt his finger, which kept him out of the rest of the season even though he had only played in one game.
International career of Ben Stokes:
Stokes debuted for England in an ODI against Ireland in August 2011. Ben did not bowl but caught Paul Stirling’s three-run catch. Stokes took 1–29 in England’s five-run T20I win over Australia. Stokes played all five ODIs against Australia, his best effort being 3–60 in the second game. Which England lost by 59 runs. Stokes was ejected for field obstruction in the second ODI against Australia. Only six ODI batsmen have been out this way.
Stokes rejoined England’s winter tour of South Africa after recovering. England won the first test by 241 runs without Stokes’ help. Stokes faced a Kagiso Rabada hat-trick ball in England’s first innings of the second test in Cape Town, with England 167–4. Ben scored a career-best 258, including 30 fours and 11 sixes. Stokes joined England’s Cricket World Cup squad in April 2019. He was named “Man of the Match” in England’s 104-run triumph over South Africa in the tournament opener. He scored 89 runs from 79 balls, took two wickets, ran out Dwaine Pretorius, and caught two balls.
“One of the greatest catches of all time” was his dismissal of Andile Phehlukwayo. Stokes helped England draw the 2019 Ashes series 2–2 (Australia maintained the urn) against an incisive Australian bowling attack and Steve Smith’s Bradmanesque hitting. The England limited-overs team contracted COVID-19 after a series against Sri Lanka in 2021. Before a home series against Pakistan, the team, including captain Eoin Morgan, had to self-isolate. Stokes captained the Pakistan ODIs after missing the Sri Lanka matches due to injury. After Joe Root’s resignation, stokes became England’s Test captain on 28 April 2022. Stokes began his captaincy with a 3–0 win over New Zealand in England in June 2022. 194 runs in 5 innings at 48.50.
Personal life of Ben Stokes:
In 2013, Stokes said he was going to marry Clare Ratcliffe. In October 2017, they got married in East Brent, Somerset. There are two kids. Stokes whole back is covered with a tattoo of a family of lions, which stands for his own family. One of Stokes’ tattoos shows that he is of Maori Ngpuhi descent. In 2019, The Sun ran a front-page story about a family tragedy that wasn’t in the public interest. In 2021, Stokes and his mother got money from The Sun.
Batting and Bowling Stats:
Batting Career Summary
| M | Inn | NO | Runs | HS | Avg | BF | SR | 100 | 200 | 50 | 4s | 6s | |
| Test | 93 | 168 | 7 | 5756 | 258 | 35.75 | 9783 | 58.84 | 12 | 1 | 28 | 691 | 109 |
| ODI | 105 | 90 | 15 | 2924 | 102 | 38.99 | 3075 | 95.09 | 3 | 0 | 21 | 238 | 88 |
| T20I | 43 | 36 | 9 | 585 | 52 | 21.67 | 457 | 128.01 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 42 | 22 |
| IPL | 45 | 44 | 6 | 935 | 107 | 24.61 | 698 | 133.95 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 81 | 32 |
Bowling Career Summary
| M | Inn | B | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Econ | Avg | SR | 5W | 10W | |
| Test | 93 | 143 | 11339 | 6263 | 195 | 6/22 | 8/161 | 3.32 | 32.12 | 58.15 | 4 | 0 |
| ODI | 105 | 88 | 3110 | 3137 | 74 | 5/61 | 5/61 | 6.05 | 42.39 | 42.03 | 1 | 0 |
| T20I | 43 | 36 | 612 | 856 | 26 | 3/26 | 3/26 | 8.39 | 32.92 | 23.54 | 0 | 0 |
| IPL | 45 | 38 | 689 | 992 | 28 | 3/15 | 3/15 | 8.64 | 35.43 | 24.61 | 0 | 0 |
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