Benjamin Andrew Stokes is an English international cricketer who is the captain of the England Test team and plays for the England team in ODIs and T20Is. In domestic cricket, he represents Durham and has played in multiple Twenty20 leagues around the world. He was part of the England team that won the 2019 Cricket World Cup and 2022 T20 World Cup.
Stokes in 2014
Stokes practising before England's ODI against Ireland in 2013
Ben Stokes signing an autograph for a fan, after the World cup victory
Stokes raising his bat after winning the third Test against Australia
The England men's cricket team represents England and Wales in international cricket. Since 1997, it has been governed by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), having been previously governed by Marylebone Cricket Club since 1903. England, as a founding nation, is a Full Member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test, One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) status. Until the 1990s, Scottish and Irish players also played for England as those countries were not yet ICC members in their own right. England are the current ICC Men's T20 World Cup champions.
The All-England Eleven in 1846
The 1859 English team in North America
The first England team to tour southern Australia in 1861–62
The death notice printed on The Sporting Times newspaper which first named the Ashes