Ben Stokes is readied to make his County Championship return after two years with a suit versus Lancashire.
Ben Stokes will certainly play his first County Championship suit in two years, when Durham play Lancashire at Stanley Park, Blackpool, from May 17.
After pulling out of the T20 World Cup in North America, Stokes, captain of England in Test cricket, will certainly start his prep work for 3 Test matches versus each of the West Indies and Sri Lanka in the summertime of 2024.
Before the first Test, at Lord’s from July 10, he will certainly obtain an optimum of 4 County Championship suits, versus Somerset (home), Essex (away), and Worcestershire (home).
“Suddenly there’s just this air of excitement around the place just when he [Stokes] walks in the room,” Durham head train Ryan Campbell informed BBCRadio Newcastle “You want to play against the best players in the world. But to have one of those in our own team, to show us the way, his experiences, it’s unbelievable.”
It will certainly interest see if James Anderson, readied to retire after the very same Lord’s Test suit, functions because game forLancashire Anderson has actually not played in this summertime’s County Championship up until now.
Stokes last played a County Championship suit in 2022, versus Middlesex at Lord’s. He made 15 and a duck however declared 4-72 in the first innings. From 73 Championship suits, all for Durham, he has 6,316 perform at 35.48 and 171 arches at 27.79.
Stokes’s bowling will certainly be under analysis. He bowled 29 overs in top-notch cricket in the whole summertime of 2023 (and took 3-89), while he returned 5-1-17-1 from the 5 Test matches in India previously this year. The County Championship suits are most likely to suggest whether he prepares to bowl in the home Tests this summertime.
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