England Test captain Ben Stokes has revealed he has no plans to reverse his decision to retire from one-day cricket and play at this year ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup and will instead use the time out of the game to consider surgery for his ongoing knee injury.
Stokes helped England to success at last year’s ICC Men’s T20 World Cup in Australia and many hoped the 32-year-old would come out of ODI retirement to help his country try and emulate their efforts in the shortest format and defend their 50-over World Cup title in India.
But Stokes said he remains retired from 50-over cricket and that he was looking forward to taking a break after the fifth and final Ashes Test at The Oval that commences on Thursday.
Stokes hurt his knee during England’s tour of New Zealand at the start of the year and managed to play just two matches for the Chennai Super Kings at this year’s edition of the Indian Premier League.
While the talented all-rounder has produced some superb individual efforts with the bat during the Ashes series already, he did not bowl during the two recent Tests at Headingley and Old Trafford and will yet again not feature from a bowling perspective in south London this week.
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