England’s purple-ball skipper Ben Stokes has efficiently undergone knee surgery and can now spend time present process rehabilitation to regain full health forward of England’s 5-match-lengthy Test tour of India beginning January 25, 2024.
Stokes took to the social media platform ‘X’ to inform his followers about the newest growth. The Canterbury-born posted an image wherein he could be seen holding crutches for assist.
The star English allrounder was unable to show his bowling prowess these days due to his left knee damage and performed as a batter for the Three Lions throughout the not too long ago culminated ODI World Cup 2023. The 32-12 months-previous performed an important function with the willow in hand to guarantee the Jos Buttler-led facet completed in the seventh place at the finish of the spherical-robin stage and earned the qualification for ICC Champions Trophy 2025.
Despite battling the damage and lacking three video games throughout England’s World Cup 2023 marketing campaign, Stokes completed the match as their second-main run-getter behind Dawid Malan. He aggregated 304 runs in six contests at a powerful common of fifty.66.Â
His World Cup outing included a ton towards the Netherlands whereas taking part in at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune and two half-centuries. His 108-run knock helped England thrash the Netherlands by 160 runs, whereas his fifty towards the Aussies led to a dropping trigger.
The batting allrounder scored a 76-ball 84 to finish the World Cup on a excessive because it helped England beat the Babar Azam-led Pakistan by 93 runs at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata.
Stokes’ availability might be key to England’s possibilities of doing properly towards India in the forthcoming Test sequence. Notably, England was the final workforce that had gained a Test sequence towards India on Indian soil again in 2012 and the Three Lions would look to replicate the identical in 2024.
