{"id":641482,"date":"2026-06-16T11:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T11:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/641482\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T11:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T11:11:08","slug":"ben-stokes-durham-door-is-always-open-for-england-captain-says-ryan-campbell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/641482\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Stokes: Durham door is always open for England captain, says Ryan Campbell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stokes’ future as Test captain is uncertain, with England head coach Brendon McCullum not offering any guarantees when he faced the media on Monday.<\/a><\/p>\n

But Stokes has the full backing of Australian Campbell, who has been unimpressed at how his player has been spoken about since news of the incident in a London nightclub emerged last week.<\/p>\n

“Ben knows he made a mistake and broke the curfew, but some of the reaction has been a little over,” Campbell added.<\/p>\n

“I’m a bit old school, I like a beer after a game of cricket if you’ve got 10 days off but I’m not the coach, I don’t run that system.”<\/p>\n

Stokes played two county games for Durham in the run-up to the New Zealand series and Campbell has already suggested he has a “75% chance” of featuring against Northants.<\/p>\n

With his availability for the third Test at Trent Bridge, starting on 25 June, uncertain, the four-day Championship game could be Stokes’ last red-ball cricket before the Test series with Pakistan in mid-August.<\/p>\n

“Ben is a competitor and he loves to play and he wants to play,” Campbell said. “He put his hand up and said he made a mistake.<\/p>\n

“From what I’ve seen, he’s in good spirits, he’s back in training, working hard and the rest will take care of itself.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stokes’ future as Test captain is uncertain, with England head coach Brendon McCullum not offering any guarantees when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-641482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}