{"id":49226,"date":"2025-08-07T01:38:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T01:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/49226\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T01:38:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T01:38:19","slug":"the-hundred-2025-ben-stokes-joins-northern-superchargers-as-a-mentor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/49226\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hundred 2025: Ben Stokes joins Northern Superchargers as a mentor"},"content":{"rendered":"

England Test captain Ben Stokes has joined Northern Superchargers in The Hundred as a mentor.<\/p>\n

Stokes, who played five games for Superchargers across the 2021 and 2024 tournaments, will join the men’s team for the duration of this year’s competition.<\/p>\n

In was announced in February that the all-rounder would miss the 100-ball competition this summer to manage his fitness<\/a> before the Ashes in Australia this winter.<\/p>\n

Having sustained a shoulder injury<\/a> that ruled him out of the fifth Test between England and India, Stokes would not have been fit to play in any case.<\/p>\n

However, the 34-year-old will still hope to make an impact by providing his expertise as he joins head coach Andrew Flintoff’s backroom staff at the Superchargers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England Test captain Ben Stokes has joined Northern Superchargers in The Hundred as a mentor. Stokes, who played…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-49226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}