Ashes Daily: Ben Stokes – England’s Greatest all-rounder?

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🗓️ 14 July 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Ben Stokes keeps producing remarkable performances for England especially in the Ashes, but should he now be considered as England’s greatest ever all-rounder? Daniel Norcross speaks to Sir Alastair Cook the captain who brought Stokes into the Test team 10 years ago, whilst TMS numbers guru Andy Zaltzman provides a statistical analysis.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.6	The TMS Podcast.
0:07.6	Here every ball of every match in the men's and women's ashes live on Radio 5 Sports
0:13.5	Extra and BBC Sounds.
0:15.9	I'm Daniel Norcross and welcome to the ashes daily podcast.
0:19.8	The coverage of the men's and women's series continues across BBC Sounds.
0:23.7	In this edition, we're focusing on the England Captain Ben Stokes as the player and the man.
0:30.0	We're going to do a deep dive.
0:35.3	Deep dive into Ben Stokes, the cricketer.
0:39.2	He is renowned as one of the, well what would you say?
0:42.2	The top four all rounders in England has ever produced.
0:45.6	Possibly top three, both of them.
0:47.5	Flint off Stokes, they get to talk about in the same breath.
0:50.7	You might argue for Will Throads and the Zoltzmen, but let's stick to seem bowling all rounders
0:55.5	in the modern era.
0:57.3	So yes, we want to look at Ben Stokes.
0:59.0	What kind of a cricketer he is.
1:01.3	And I say that because his numbers aren't remarkable.
1:06.5	His batting average wouldn't make him out as one of England's greatest batters.
1:10.6	His bowling average wouldn't make him out as one of England's greatest bowlers.
1:13.7	And yet he somehow finds himself in the thick of the action at some of England's most
1:18.6	important moments of course, winning two World Cup England only side, the first side
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