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

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Ben Stokes: A Difficult Start in Cricket

Ben Stokes has passed 6,000 runs in this matches batting average for his career. He's one of only three players to have over 100 wickets with Garfield, Sobers and Jacques Callis. Flintoff ended up averaging just under 32 with about 33 with the ball,. But had those peak Flintoff, a relatively short time, was extraordinaryAverage 50 with a bad almost and 21 with the balls. And he's been, pardon me, slight dip with the bat after he missed that period of cricket after the incident in Bristol in 2017. His next 19 tests, 44 with about 27 with the ball. It's a difficult start. Broad and Anderson both average round about 40 in their

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