Ben Stokes

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Powerful, resilient, determined, a team-player, mercurial individual and inspiring leader, Ben is capable of turning games with his batting, his bowling and in the field.

He is, quite simply, the modern games greatest all-rounder.

Ben debuted for Durham at 17 and dismissed Mark Ramprakash with his third legal delivery in senior cricket. In April 2011, he took 6-68 and scored a brilliant County Championship Division One hundred that included five sixes in an over.

He 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, having scored 38* and taken two wickets against Warwickshire.

In 2015, he scored the fastest ever Test century at Lord's v New Zealand and on the 2015/16 tour of South Africa, earned the world record for most runs in an innings at number six, scoring 258. It was the fastest England double-hundred in history and the second fastest of all time.

In the opening match of the 2019 Cricket World Cup, Ben made 89 runs from 79 balls v South Africa whilst his catch to dismiss Andile Phehlukwayo has been described as ‘one of the greatest catches of all time’.

It was his crucial 84* in the final v New Zealand though that will live long in the memory (before batting through the super over to help England to a famously dramatic victory) as he was aptly named in the Team of the Tournament.

Ben’s form continued in the 2019 Ashes series. His now famous innings of 135*, in a successful pursuit of 359, was described as the Greatest Hundred of the Decade by Wisden and the ‘greatest knock ever played by an Englishman’ by Alastair Cook.

His efforts earned him the BBC Sports Personality of the Year, and ICC Player of the Year, for 2019.

Ben was named England Captain in June 2020 for the Test series against the West Indies. In the first Test, he become only the sixth cricketer to score 4,000 runs and take 150 wickets and in the first innings of the second Test, he scored 176 runs, to record his tenth century in Test cricket.

In recent years, Stokes has taken the mantle on a permanent basis, revolutionising the Three Lions in the Test arena alongside Head Coach Brendon McCullum.

An historic 3-0 victory in Pakistan came in his first overseas assignment at the helm, following on from a match-winning fifty in the final of the ICC T20 World Cup as England became double white-ball champions.

In 2024, Stokes’ all-round prowess was further underlined when he brought up his 200^th Test wicket, to go with 6,000 runs, only the third player in history to achieve both feats in the longest format, after Sir Garfield Sobers and Jacques Kallis.

Follow Ben on X at @benstokes38 and Instagram at @stokesy

Ben is currently using the following bat dimensions:

Swell depth = 65mm
Edge depth = 39mm

Weight between 2.10lb -2.11lb