In his speech to his team-mates, Stokes said: \u201cThere\u2019s something I know is going to happen over the next two days, which is going to be [that] this is my last two days as your captain, and my last two days as representing England.<\/p>\n
\u201cReasons can wait [as to] why. But I\u2019ve had many trips to the well before for this team, for you blokes, for people beforehand and I\u2019ve got one more trip to do. The only thing that I ask, please, is can everyone else please just do the same?<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of hard work still to do, and the only thing that I want is to be able to walk off the end of that field, regardless of the result, knowing that I\u2019ve had this group of men \u2013 and one lady [Sarah Taylor, the fielding coach] \u2013 give everything for the last two days.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe only thing I want is just for everyone to give it, not only for me, selfishly, but also for this team and everything else that we\u2019ve got going forward for you blokes. All the taps on the arse, all the emotion, all that kind of stuff, please can it just wait until the end of this game? Because we\u2019ve still got a s—load more work to do, and I\u2019ve got a s—load more work to do that I want to do.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s just go out there and f—–g give absolutely everything for another two days, alright? Because that\u2019s my only intention and that\u2019s where all my energy is right now. Got the emotional side out of it, but now it\u2019s time to work. And everyone else, please just come with me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his speech to his team-mates, Stokes said: \u201cThere\u2019s something I know is going to happen over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1723,1721,177629,7681,217,101,5438,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-681833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-ben-stokes","tag-cricket","tag-england-and-wales-cricket-board-ecb","tag-england-cricket-team","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-standard","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681833","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=681833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}