Ben Stokes breaks his retirement and creates history, joins Sachin Ganguly's club

Ben Stokes Records: Ben Stokes has played a brilliant century of 108 runs in 84 balls against the Netherlands in the World Cup 2023. With this inning, Ben Stokes has now joined the club of Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly.

Thu, 09 Nov 2023 12:05 PM (IST)
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Ben Stokes breaks his retirement and creates history, joins Sachin Ganguly's club

In the 40th match of the World Cup 2023, England defeated the Netherlands by 160 runs and made it to the top 8. With this victory, England, who are out of the race for the semi-finals of the World Cup 2023, have hopes of qualifying for the Champions Trophy 2025. In this victory of the English team, Ben Stokes played a brilliant inning of 108 runs in 84 balls with the help of 6 fours and 6 sixes. England had set a target of 340 runs for the Netherlands, but in response, the Netherlands team was reduced to just 179 runs in 37.2 overs. Stokes got man of the match. Along with this, Stokes has also made a big record in his name.

With his century inning of 108 runs against the Netherlands, Ben Stokes completed 10 thousand runs in his international cricket. He also has more than 100 wickets in his name. Has become the first player from England in this case. Stokes now has 10,081 runs and 297 wickets in his name in international cricket. Let us tell you that Ben Stokes had already retired, but he broke his retirement to make England the world champion again.

Talking about more than 10 thousand runs and more than 100 wickets in international cricket, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Jacques Kallis and Sanath Jayasuriya are already included in this list. Now Ben Stokes' name has also been added to this list.

Let us tell you that Ben Stokes made his ODI debut in 2011. In ODIs, he has taken a total of 74 wickets so far with 3,379 runs in 113 matches. While in Test, Stokes has taken 197 wickets with 6117 runs in 97 matches, while in T20 International, he has taken 26 wickets with 585 runs.

Muskan Kumawat Journalist & Writer