Ben Stokes

Ben Stokes has announced his shock retirement from one-day cricket and will play his final match at his home ground of Durham on Tuesday.

“It is ridiculous the amount of cricket that is expected of people to play,” Stokes said earlier this summer. I have loved all 104 games I have played and it feels amazing to be playing my last game at my home ground in Durham.” Stokes has not played a T20 international for 16 months, having missed the World Cup last autumn while he was taking a break from the game to prioritise his mental health. His decision means that fitness permitting he will be available for this year’s tournament in Australia – an event with which he may feel that he has unfinished business having last played in the 2016 final, when Carlos Brathwaite hit four successive sixes off his bowling to win the match for West Indies in the last over. “I have loved every minute of playing with my mates for England. As hard as this decision was to come to, it’s not as hard as dealing with the fact I can’t give my teammates 100% of myself in this format any more. “This has been an incredibly tough decision to make,” Stokes said.

Ben Stokes, the England all-rounder, on Monday (18 July) announced his decision to retire from ODI cricket.

I hope we can win on Tuesday and set the series up nicely against South Africa." "I would like to wish Jos Buttler, Matthew Mott, the players and the support staff every success going forward. I have loved every minute of playing with my mates for England. We have had an incredible journey on the way. You’re the best fans in the world. The England shirt deserves nothing less from anyone who wears it." Stokes said in a statement: "I will play my last game for England in ODI cricket on Tuesday in Durham. I have decided to retire from this format.

The 31-year-old's ODI career will forever be remembered for his Player-of-the-Match performance in the 2019 ICC Men's Cricket World Cup final at Lord's. Stokes' ...

“Ben is not only one of the world’s best players, but an inspirational figure too so our ODI team will miss him. I hope we can win on Tuesday and set the series up nicely against South Africa." Clare Connor, interim ECB CEO, said: “Ben Stokes is a superstar in every format of our game. "I would like to wish Jos Buttler, Matthew Mott, the players and the support staff every success going forward. Not only do I feel that my body is letting me down because of the schedule and what is expected of us, but I also feel that I am taking the place of another player who can give Jos and the rest of the team their all. I have loved every minute of playing with my mates for England. We have had an incredible journey on the way.

The England Test captain said playing three formats were 'unsustainable' for him.

“It’s disappointing news to say the least. “The issue is with the schedule. It is madness for players.” “He’s so important as a player, but I guess Ben Stokes is not the sort to hold people back. “To completely knock 50-over cricket on the head is a massive surprise. Maybe they could say ‘Look, just have the time off that you need.

England's star all-rounder reveals he will be hanging up his ODI boots after the first match of the South Africa series at the age of just 31.

I hope we can win on Tuesday and set the series up nicely against South Africa.” I have loved every minute of playing with my mates for England. We have had an incredible journey on the way. “I would like to wish Jos Buttler, Matthew Mott, the players and the support staff every success going forward. “It’s time for someone else to progress as a cricketer and make incredible memories like I have over the past 11 years. Stokes, who made his ODI debut against Ireland in Dublin in 2011, said: “I will play my last game for England in ODI cricket on Tuesday in Durham. I have decided to retire from this format. The all-rounder walks away from the format at the age of 31 just months after taking over as England’s Test captain.

The 31-year-old has a 39.44 batting average in 104 ODIs, has taken 74 wickets and was Player of the Match in England's incredible World Cup win in 2019.

The schedule needs looking at, it is a bit of a joke at the moment." "I guess it's the schedule. I hope we can win on Tuesday and set the series up nicely against South Africa." "I would like to wish Jos Buttler, Matthew Mott, the players and the support staff every success going forward. "It came as a surprise. The England shirt deserves nothing less from anyone who wears it.

Ben Stokes has announced his retirement from ODI cricket, with the new England Test captain wanting to focus on his captaincy duties working under Brendon ...

"But having taken on the Test captaincy and with today’s busy calendar of cricket, we completely understand and respect his decision. "Ben Stokes is a superstar in every format of our game," Connor said. It is a typically selfless decision that will benefit England long-term."

His final 50-over match in England colours will come against South Africa at Durham on Tuesday and the decision allows Stokes to concentrate on his role as ...

You're the best fans in the world. 'I would like to wish Jos Buttler, Matthew Mott, the players and the support staff every success going forward. The England shirt deserves nothing less from anyone who wears it. 'Three formats are just unsustainable for me now. 'This has been an incredibly tough decision to make. His final 50-over match in England colours will come against South Africa on familiar ground at Chester-Le-Street on Tuesday and the decision allows Stokes to concentrate on his role as England Test captain.

The highs and lows of a remarkable ODI career for England.

But Stokes' composure in the clutch moments was something to behold - not least his realisation that keeping that final ball from Boult on the ground and accepting the Super Over if needs be was preferable to swinging for glory and risking it all, a lesson he learnt from watching Bangladesh implode with 1 needed from three balls against India at the 2016 T20 World Cup. And then, of course, he trotted straight back out to do it all again, eight vital runs out of 15 setting the stage for Jofra Archer - a bowler whom he was able to lend wise counsel given his own crushing experience in Kolkata three years earlier. Barely a fortnight later, however - and in an ominous precursor to today's decision - Stokes had declared he would be taking an indefinite break from all cricket to manage his mental health. But as he back-pedalled towards the rope, reverse-cupping his right hand to pluck a fast, flat thwack out of the sky, and in the process, all but end any prospect of a fightback, Stokes created a moment that captivated the Oval crowd, and probably settled a few butterflies (though they'd be back soon enough). The fact that he'd also top-scored with 89 from 79 balls in England's 311 for 8 was quickly an afterthought. Amid a huge media buzz on his comeback tour in New Zealand in February 2018, Stokes would claim a Player-of-the-Match award in his second match of the series, and come the tour of Sri Lanka the following winter, England's coach Trevor Bayliss had to step in to implore his man to tone down his training, so determined was he to prove he would never let his team-mates down again. A match that ought to be remembered for Moeen Ali's astonishing century, 102 from 57 balls all told, with seven fours and eight sixes, is instead recalled as the reason why Stokes happened to be in Bristol in the small hours of September 25, 2017 - the night on which he was arrested and charged with affray following an incident outside a club. He offered Stokes as blank a slate as English cricket as a whole, recalling him to the Test team at No. 6, from where he made an 85-ball hundred in the first Test - the fastest ever made at Lord's - and trusting him to be the heartbeat in a reconfigured one-day side. In isolation, the sight of South Africa's No. 8 holing out to deep midwicket might count for little, especially with England already in command of the game. The stand-out feature of Stokes' World Cup-winning heroics was his calmness amid the chaos. The pity for England was that they mislaid that method in their very next game, the semi-final in Cardiff, when Stokes himself made 34 from 64 balls while seemingly clinging on for dear life on an abrasive deck and against a fired-up and reverse-swinging Pakistan attack. Stokes' progress wasn't entirely linear thereafter, however, and few setbacks were more 'crushing' than his tour of the Caribbean two months after the Ashes. Despite being retained in the top-order for the three-match ODI series, he returned scores of 5, 4 and 0, which - following on from scores of 0 and 5 in his final two innings in Australia - sent his form into a tail-spin. At the second time of asking, he was reunited with the WACA wicket where he'd belted a sublime maiden Test century earlier on the tour, and responded to the new responsibility with an unrecognisably mature innings of 70 from 84 balls. Stokes debuted as a 20-year-old in the summer of 2011, as part of the rebuild after that year's World Cup, but in an era when England's instincts were still to build steadily then slog in the final ten overs, he found himself pigeon-holed in the lower-middle order - often as low as No. 8 - while the likes of Alastair Cook and Jonathan Trott were trusted with the proper batting.

The England Test captain has announced his retirement from one-day internationals.

Statistics can obscure the bigger picture and this was certainly the case with Stokes. Jonny Bairstow’s century led England to a six-wicket victory in Pune but Stokes’ jaw-dropping belligerence in his 99 off 52 balls was captivating. He followed up his 70 with the key wickets of Australia captain George Bailey, big-hitting Glenn Maxwell and dangerous lower-order pair James Faulkner and Mitchell Johnson in a 57-run win. As wickets tumbled around him, Stokes hustled and battled his way to 84 not out to keep his side afloat before defying fatigue to return for the one-over shootout as England won by “the barest of all margins”.

From the ECB to ICC, governing bodies need to realise how the packed schedule makes the 50-over game vulnerable.

The latter’s appeal is understandable in the modern economic climate but, having passed up the Indian Premier League this year and hinted he will do so again before next summer’s Ashes assault, it is clear the type of cricket which is calling him. “I feel that my body is letting me down because of the schedule and what is expected of us,” he said. For a cricketer paid by one of the boards responsible for this, to be so explicit in pushing back is quite the thing. He averaged 50 with the bat during Eoin Morgan’s five-year World Cup project, is a genuine sixth bowler and fields like a demon. And Stokes could not have been clearer about the bigger picture here, citing an “unsustainable schedule” and his fear of letting down teammates. Yep, the champion all-rounder who powered England to World Cup victory by the barest of margins three summers ago, in front of a packed house at Lord’s and with the UK’s largest cricket audience since the heady 2005 Ashes, has decided the 50-over stuff must make way.

The England Test captain has announced his decision to retire from one-day internationals.

Statistics can obscure the bigger picture and this was certainly the case with Stokes. Jonny Bairstow’s century led England to a six-wicket victory in Pune but Stokes’ jaw-dropping belligerence in his 99 off 52 balls was captivating. He followed up his 70 with the key wickets of Australia captain George Bailey, big-hitting Glenn Maxwell and dangerous lower-order pair James Faulkner and Mitchell Johnson in a 57-run win. As wickets tumbled around him, Stokes hustled and battled his way to 84 not out to keep his side afloat before defying fatigue to return for the one-over shootout as England won by “the barest of all margins”.

Ben Stokes announced the news on social media on Monday afternoon, and he will step down from one-day action following Tuesday's ODI against South Africa.

"It's time for someone else to progress as a cricketer and make incredible memories like I have over the past 11 years. In a statement, Stokes said: "I will play my last game for England in ODI cricket on Tuesday in Durham. I have decided to retire from this format. feel that my body is letting me down because of the schedule and what is expected of us, but I also feel that I am taking the place of another player who can give Jos and the rest of the team their all.

The England Test captain may lose out financially by retiring from the 50-over format.

“To do that he feels this is the best way. It’s not going to be easy but that’s what it needs.” “I was probably surprised at the timing but I’m not surprised that he’s had to give one format away.

The England Test captain may lose out financially by retiring from the 50-over format.

“To do that he feels this is the best way. It’s not going to be easy but that’s what it needs.” “I was probably surprised at the timing but I’m not surprised that he’s had to give one format away.

The 31-year-old will now focus his international goals on Test and T20 cricket.

“To do that he feels this is the best way. “I was probably surprised at the timing but I’m not surprised that he’s had to give one format away. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. It has come earlier than I would have liked – at 31 giving up one of the formats. By clicking ‘Register’ you confirm that your data has been entered correctly and you have read and agree to our Terms of use, Cookie policy and Privacy notice. It was never going to be an easy one, which one.

He says he has taken the decision to extend his Test and Twenty20 career. "There is too much cricket rammed in for people to play all three formats now," said ...

While those series were ongoing, England played three ODIs in the Netherlands and two days after the India Test ended, a three-match T20 series began, followed by three ODIs. England will now play three ODIs, three T20s and three Tests against South Africa by 12 September, having finished the India ODI series on Sunday. "There is too much cricket rammed in for people to play all three formats now," said Stokes, who became England's Test captain in April.

England chief Rob Key believes the current schedule needs to change after Ben Stokes cited it as the main reason behind his retirement from one-day cricket.

"I was probably surprised at the timing but I'm not surprised that he's had to give one format away. Speaking to Sky Sports News, Key said: "What it really needs is all the boards, the ICC and everyone, to come up with something that's manageable. feel that my body is letting me down because of the schedule and what is expected of us, but I also feel that I am taking the place of another player who can give Jos and the rest of the team their all.

Monday's surprise announcement on social media came with a pointed suggestion from Stokes that England's fixture schedule was 'unsustainable'

But he wants to do the Test job as best as he can, he wants to take England’s Test team forward. “I was probably surprised at the timing but I’m not surprised that he’s had to give one format away. With me being captain of the Test team and how much cricket we have coming up, I do have to look after my body. “It is a lot harder than it used to be. I just feel like there is too much cricket rammed in for people to play all three formats now. It isn’t just me or us, you see it all around the world now where teams are having to rest some players in a certain series so they feel like they are getting a break.

The 31-year-old, recently installed as England's Test captain, announced his retirement from the 50-over format on Monday, and will play his final game ...

'I asked Stuart himself and said when you stopped playing white-ball cricket do you feel that’s a huge reason as to why you’re still playing now at 36. But Stokes showed his own colours when he pulled out of February's money-spinning Indian Premier League auction to focus on the traditional form of the game. 'It was never going to be an easy one,' he said on his decision. The captain’s trying to look after me, the medical team and the coach as well. as he aims to emulate Stuart Broad and Jimmy Anderson by playing '150 Tests' for his country I had a quick chat with Jos after the game.