{"id":194052,"date":"2021-10-25T14:04:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T08:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=194052"},"modified":"2021-10-25T15:08:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T09:38:15","slug":"ben-stokes-england-squad-ashes-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/sports-news\/breaking-newscast-cricket\/ben-stokes-england-squad-ashes-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Stokes added to England\u2019s Ashes squad, says he is ready for Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Star all-rounder Ben Stokes has been added to England\u2019s Ashes squad. Stokes has been included in the squad after declaring himself fit for the action. After hearing this news every England fan will be delighted to watch the best all-rounder back in action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stokes, who took an indefinite break from cricket at the end of July to focus on his mental health and earlier this month, underwent a second operation on his injured finger and was not included in the England squad for the Ashes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;I\u2019m ready for Australia.&quot;<br><br>\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AUSvENG?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AUSvENG<\/a> \ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc65\udb40\udc6e\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc7f<\/p>&mdash; England Cricket (@englandcricket) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/englandcricket\/status\/1452544814654935041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 25, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, after the return of their match-winner, England are favourites to win the Ashes 2021. Stokes was recovering from surgery on his left index finger and his mental health. He managed to get his mental well-being to a position where he is ready to unleash the best version of himself. Now, Stokes believes that he is back to his best and has already started the preparations for the series that begins on December 8th in Brisbane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Star all-rounder said that he had a break to priorities his mental health and he also got a good amount of time to recover from his finger injury and now he is looking forward to playing with his teammates and, is completely ready for Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read Also:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/babar-azam-father-breaks-down\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/babar-azam-father-breaks-down\/\">IND vs PAK T20 WC: Babar Azam\u2019s father Azam Siddiqui breaks down in stadium after Pakistan\u2019s historic win | WATCH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI had a break to prioritise my mental wellbeing and I got my finger sorted. I am looking forward to seeing my mates and being on the field with them. I\u2019m ready for Australia,\u201d said Stokes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>England will tour Australia to play the 5-Test match series to bring Ashes back to their country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>England\u2019s squad for the Ashes 2021<\/strong>: Joe Root (c), James Anderson, Jonny Bairstow, Dom Bess, Stuart Broad, Rory Burns, Jos Buttler (wk), Zak Crawley, Haseeb Hameed, Dan Lawrence, Jack Leach, David Malan, Craig Overton, Ollie Pope, Ollie Robinson, Ben Stokes, Chris Wokes and Mark Wood<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"IND VS PAK: Virat Kohli Slams The Journalist Over Rohit Sharma&#039;s Performance-IndVsPak T20 World Cup\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-Ha3TvocPUo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star all-rounder Ben Stokes has been added to England\u2019s Ashes squad. Stokes has been included in the squad after declaring himself fit for the action. After hearing this news every England fan will be delighted to watch the best all-rounder back in action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":194060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Ben Stokes added to England\u2019s Ashes squad, says he is ready for Australia\n\n#BenStokes #Ashes2021 #AUSvENG","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1525],"tags":[109754,109755,86994,109756],"yst_prominent_words":[64987,88302,31550,21926,64988,86972,59749,52236,80951,21991,59750,36067,11649,30364,28559,86154],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2021\/10\/25140038\/stokes.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194052"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=194052"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=194052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->