England’s Ben Stokes throughout apply.
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Ben Stokes declared himself prepared Thursday to play in England’s essential Cricket World Cup match towards South Africa after lacking the primary three video games due to harm.
Stokes, the match-winner within the 2019 remaining, has been fighting a hip drawback sustained a week earlier than the World Cup and missed the losses to New Zealand and Afghanistan, which got here both facet of a win over Bangladesh.
England subsequent faces the Proteas on Saturday with its title protection on the rocks.
“It was a frustrating little niggle to get before the tournament,” the test captain told the BBC before a training session at the Wankhede Stadium, “but I have worked very hard to get back to where I am and I am making myself ready to be available for selection.
“We have had a few days off since the last game and the first training session here in Mumbai. I’ll give it a good push but, yes, I think everything is pretty good. I am in a good place.”
England will hope Stokes’ return will resuscitate the staff’s possibilities in India and he is relishing the strain.
“I deal with it pretty easy to be honest, because I know I am one person in a team sport,” he said. “No one looks to one person in this team to inspire them or anything like that. It is not the case that if I do come in then all of a sudden we are going to do well.
“It is just one of those things that gets spoken about a lot but I don’t read into too much. Everyone that walks out on to that field for England is a match-winner and can do something individually that can win us a game. We just need to tone it down a bit on me coming back in.”
Stokes will solely be a batter at this World Cup as he manages his workload after the Ashes.
