In the third one-day international in a four-match series at The Oval in London, New Zealand won the toss and decided to bowl against England. Both teams will receive the best preparations for the World Cup with two games already completed and two more to go. Following a crushing loss in the series opener in Cardiff, defending World Cup champions England tied the match on Monday in Southampton.
Stokes comes 18 short of what would have been the first non-opener to score a double hundred in ODIs.But as of right now, he is the England batter with the highest single-game total.
Prior to him this record was held by Jason Roy who scored 180 against Australia in 2018. Jason Roy has also scored 162 in 2016 against Sri Lanka and 153 in 2019 against Bangladesh.
The only person in the top ten individual ODI scorers for England who had remained not out is Jos Butler when he scored 162 against Netherlands in 2022.