The cricketing fraternity may be very a lot conscious of how emotional Ben Stokes was after his father’s loss of life. Regardless of his will, the present Check captain of the England staff wasn’t current throughout his father’s demise and that bothered him rather a lot. A lot in order that it made him hate the sport.
Gerard Stokes, his father, handed away in December 2020 following a year-long battle with mind most cancers. The previous rugby participant was in Christchurch in his closing moments whereas his son Ben Stokes was with the England staff in South Africa.
Talking to The Guardian, Stokes recalled how his father inspired him to play the 2020 version of the Indian Premier League (IPL) and that was the final time Stokes noticed his dad. The World Cup winner added that he would have carried out issues in a different way if he would have identified that it was the final time he would see his father.
“The final time I noticed Dad was leaving New Zealand to go to the Indian Premier League – that was dictated by cricket. He needed me to go, he actually liked me taking part in for Rajasthan Royals and the folks there,” stated the 31-year-old.
The English red-ball captain added, “However it made me hate cricket, I believed it was the explanation I didn’t see my dad earlier than he died. I ought to have opened up about it sooner – I simply thought ‘cricket, cricket, cricket. It’s not a remorse … however I’d do issues in a different way.”
Ben Stokes blames media for being dishonest throughout the 2017 brawl controversy
Stokes’ profession may have been lower brief and England’s dream of successful the 2019 World Cup might need been hindered if the southpaw would have been discovered responsible of affray after a brawl in 2017.
He, together with Alex Hales, was suspended by the England Cricket Board (ECB) after a video of them combating exterior a bar went viral. Stokes was arrested following the occasion. To his protection, he stated that he was attempting to save lots of two homosexual males who have been being abused. The cricketer additionally blamed the media for not being trustworthy with their reporting.
“After I say the media are items of shit, it’s that they jumped to conclusions. I’m not the kind of particular person to play out a vendetta publicly – it’s my ethical excessive floor. However there was stuff folks, sure folks, journalists, shops had however selected to not put on the market as a result of it didn’t replicate the best way I used to be being written about,” stated the cricketer.
