West Indies vs South Africa Game Scheduled For 23 May Is Postponed Due To If things continue this way, England’s all-rounder will be available for the first Test series against the West Indies this summer. Ben Stokes, their captain, bowled brilliantly on his first bowling day of the season, taking two wickets in his first County Championship encounter for Durham in two years.
One could even argue that, since the first Test triumph in India, the greatest thing England’s fans have seen this year is the image of Stokes’s left knee when he warmed up in shorts prior to Durham’s match against Lancashire. Not a single bandage or strapping was visible on either knee, not even on the left, which underwent extensive surgery in the fall.
England must get back its all-around player: Stokes, who has only taken six wickets in his last 16 Test matches, has developed into a specialist batsman and a motivating captain. When he began the bowling after noon in the fifth Test in Dharamsala and sped past Rohit Sharma’s outside edge, it was undoubtedly the most memorable of the six. To balance their Test team, though, England needs their all-rounder back as a fifth bowler.
Ben Raine expressed his happiness to have Stokes back in the game, saying: “You could imagine this being a bit below him, but it isn’t. Stokesy has played so much cricket at such a high level.” He’s always at full capacity. That is really energizing to behold.
“He ran in today, as you witnessed. It’s fantastic for English cricket that he is bowling pain-free and with satisfaction after his knee surgery. I want to see what kind of summer he has.
After they had sent Lancashire in, Stokes hit the Stanley Park pitch as hard as any of Durham’s five seamers. While Stokes was not faster than Matthew Potts, he did make the ball bounce steeper and thwack the loudest into the gloves of the wicketkeeper—the other Ollie Robinson, who may develop into the real Ollie Robinson this summer.
