Ben Stokes and Virat Kohli have shared a love-hate relationship on the sphere. The duo by no means shied away from exhibiting their aggressive sides largely at any time when India-England locked horns with one another. Nonetheless, after Stokes introduced curtains down on his ODI profession final month, Kohli confirmed nice sportsmanship spirit with a morale-boosting social media publish which proved that their rivalry is barely skilled and the duo doesn’t maintain any private grudges.
Commenting on their rivalry, Stokes made it clear that there are superb contests and particular person rivalries between sportspersons on the sphere, however as soon as off it, there’s all the time mutual respect and admiration for one another. Moreover, the southpaw went on to equate his skilled relationship with Virat with the reigning Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic and star Australian tennis sensation Nick Kyrgios.
Sports activities produces superb contests: Ben Stokes
“Look, sport produces superb contests not solely between groups however you even have these battles and contests between people. However on the finish of the day, there’s all the time respect between oppositions, between people, and it’s simply in our sports activities. Simply an instance – you have a look at Djokovic and Nick Kyrgios. They’ve clearly had an enormous rivalry however nonetheless on the finish of the day, there’s all the time that respect there between the 2 skilled athletes. That’s the identical for us and thru sports activities. You’re all the time going to have a battle and attempting your hardest to win a sport. However relating to the top of it, there’s all the time that respect and that’s what nice sport is. One sportsman respects the opposite,” stated Stokes forward of the discharge of his documentary ‘Ben Stokes: Phoenix from the Ashes’.
Ben Stokes, who had scored an unbeaten match-winning 84 within the 2019 World Cup last at Lord’s, is presently England’s Check captain and one in all their star all-rounders in T20Is. He shockingly introduced his retirement from One Day Internationals on July 18, 2022 citing workload administration and his incapacity to provide his 100% in that format.
Stokes’ sudden retirement from ODIs has put the Three Lions in a spot of hassle as they strategize a means for a profitable world cup title defence in India subsequent 12 months.
