Ben Stokes’ absence in ODIs “large loss” for England: Nasser Hussain
Lahore [Pakistan], : After England’s loss to Australia of their ICC Champions Trophy marketing campaign opener, former England skipper Nasser Hussain mentioned that the absence of veteran all-rounder Ben Stokes is hurting the Three Lions as his inclusion within the Champions Trophy squad would have made the steadiness of the group extra “comfy”.
Even making 351 runs didn’t show to be protected for England as a resilient Alex Carey and explosive pair of Josh Inglis and Glenn Maxwell helped Australia safe a five-wicket win at Lahore on Saturday.
Talking after the match to Sky Sports activities as quoted by Wisden, Nasser mentioned that there was not a lot expectation from Australia as they missed their key gamers, together with frontline pacers skipper Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood, retired all-rounder Marcus Stoinis and all-rounder Mitchell Marsh who can also be down with an harm.
“I feel England when Duckett was smashing it and acquired 165, and [they were] getting up in the direction of 350-plus, you had been considering perhaps England have discovered a system. Possibly these situations will swimsuit England,” he added.
Hussain went on to clarify how an absence of an all-rounder backfired on England. With the intention to increase their batting, they positioned belief of their all-rounder to play because the fifth bowling possibility and collectively, Liam Livingstone and Joe Root took 1/73 in 11 overs with their spin bowling, with Root being a part-timer bowler.
“They can’t work out whether or not to play the additional batter, which they did right now. Meaning their bowling is a bit quick. Or play one in all their bowling all-rounders, [Gus] Atkinson or [Jamie] Overton. However then, their batting would have been quick,” he mentioned.
“I feel latest cricket has proven the worth of 1 particular person, and that’s Ben Stokes. That Ben Stokes character and particular person makes your steadiness of batting and bowling way more comfy, and I feel he is an enormous loss,” he added.
Notably, Stokes has not performed any Checklist-A cricket, not to mention ODIs, for the reason that 2023 ICC Cricket World Cup, after having made a return to the format within the match following retirement from the format in 2022. In 2024, his solely white-ball video games had been three matches for the Northern Superchargers in The Hundred. Coming to T20Is as properly, he has not performed for England since their T20 WC 2022 triumph, wherein he performed an important function with a match-winning 50 within the ultimate.
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