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

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Stokes' Captaincy in England

Stokes presents opposition teams with puzzles they're not used to solving. England had scored more runs off the bat for the same number of wickets, but managed to lose. He has taken two quite different approaches to batting since taking over as captain. The baz-bailean approach is more obvious, but there has been this incredible invention and flexibility in the field. It's not just random, his captain is not just random thing. And so you're asking us to really run towards the danger of maybe being a sacrificial lamb... But if he doesn't go back on the side then it's very hard for Harry Brute to come home.

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