The English International cricketer Benjamin Andrew Stokes (Ben Stokes) is the captain of the England Test Team and is regarded as one of England’s greatest all-rounders in the sport’s history.
In domestic cricket, he represents Durham and has played in multiple T20 leagues around the World. He was part of the England team that won the 2019 Cricket World Cup and the 2022 T20 World Cup.
Ben Stokes Records
- Ben Stokes holds the 41st position in most catches with 185 matches across the formats between 2011 and 2024.
- Stokesy secured 17th rank in the list of players to have the most sixes in his career with 262 sixes in 429 innings and equaled the tally with Sachin Tendulkar.
Test Records
- Stokes secured 70th rank in the list of all-rounders to have 1000 runs and 100 wickets.
- He holds the top position in the list of players to have the most runs in an innings batting in 4th position. He scored 258 runs during the second test against the West Indies tour of England played between July 16-20, 2020.
- Stokesy secured 12th position to have the highest strike rate (227.77) in an innings during the 1st test of England’s tour of Pakistan in 2022.
- Ben Stokes secured 30th rank in the list of batters to have 1000 runs, 50 wickets, and 50 catches in Tests.
- He holds the 82nd position in the list of players to have 5000 runs and 50 fielding dismissals.
- He is on the list of a Hundred and a ninety in the first and second innings during the 1st Investec test played against New Zealand in May 2015.
- Ben Stokes holds the top position in the list of batters to have the most sixes with 131 in his test career.
- Stokesy holds the 3rd rank in the list of players to have the most sixes in an innings as he scored 11 sixes during the first innings of the second test match in England’s tour of South Africa in 2016.
- He holds the 12th rank in the list of batters to have the most runs by fours and sixes in an innings. He scored 186 runs with 30 fours and 11 sixes during the test match against 2nd test against South Africa in 2016.
- Stokesy secured the 33rd position with the most catches in his test career with 108 catches while fielding.
- He holds the first position in the list of most catches in an innings taking up 5 catches during the match against South Africa in 2020.
- During the second innings of the 3rd Test against the West Indies at Edgbaston on July 28, 2024. Stokes scored the fastest test half-century by an English Player. He smashed 50 runs in 24 balls surpassing Ian Botham’s record set in 1981 by four deliveries, and finished on 57 not out smashing nine fours and two sixes.
ODI Records
- Stokesy secured 26th position in the list of batters to have the most runs in an innings 182 runs during the 3rd ODI against New Zealand on September 13, 2023, where England won by 181 runs. He also ranked second position in scoring the most runs while batting in No.4.
- He was also listed among the batters who were dismissed for 99 runs.
- Ben Stokes holds the 39th position in the list of batters to have the most sixes in his ODI career with 109 sixes. He also secured 28th position in the list of batters to have the most sixes in an innings with 10 sixes during 2nd ODI against India.
- Stokes holds 30th position in the list of most runs from fours and sixes in an innings scoring 114 runs from fours and sixes out of 182 runs. He smashed 15 fours and 9 sixes.
- Stokes secured the 14th position in the list of bowlers to have the most wickets in an innings when on the losing side. He picked up five wickets during a match against England in 2013.
- He also holds the record to have been the youngest player to take five wickets in an innings at the age of 22Y 104D.
- Stokesy holds 9th rank in the list of highest partnership runs for the seventh wicket. Along with Chris Woakes, he smashed 129 runs during a match against the Netherlands in 2023.
T20I Records
- Ben Stokes holds 33rd rank in the list of players to have the most catches in an innings.
Ben Stokes Awards
- Ben Stokes was awarded with BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award in 2019 and he was also awarded with ICC Player of the Year at the 2019 ICC Awards.
- Stokes was appointed as the Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to cricket.
- He was named as the Widen Leading Cricketer in the World in the 2020, 2021, and 2023 editions of the Almanack.
- Ben Stokes was named as awarded the Freedom of the Borough of Allerdale on September 25, 2019.
Ben Stokes Achievements
- He holds the second-fastest Double Hundred in terms of Balls faced.
- Ben Stokes has the fastest 250 runs in Tests for which he took only 196 balls.
- Stokesy second highest number of sixes in a Test innings 11 sixes.
- He holds the top position in the list of players to have most sixes in his career. He has smashed 131 sixes in 190 innings he played.
- He has the most runs in test innings at the sixth position, with 258 runs.
- Stokes also has the most runs in the first session of a day in Tests with 130 runs.
- He and Jonny Bairstow hold the highest test partnership for the sixth wicket. He achieved this feat against South Africa when he made a partnership run of 399 runs.
- Ben Stokes holds the second cricketer after Ian Botham to have over 4,000 runs and over 100 wickets in Tests for England.
- He has the highest number of sixes in a County Championship innings having smashed 17 during the match between Durham against Worcestershire in May 2022.
- He has the most runs in an ODI innings for England smashing 182 runs.
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