After playing through extreme pain in the recent ODIs against Pakistan, England\u2019s top all-rounder Ben Stokes is optimistic that his operated left index finger would not cause him problems during the crucial Test series against India. He admitted that the anguish compelled him to receive a pain-killing steroid injection.<\/p>\n
Stokes will play for Northern Superchargers in the first few rounds of The Hundred before joining the England squad for the five-match Test series against India, which begins on August 4 in Nottingham.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got a bit of a break now which should give the steroids time to take effect and allow me to play pain-free in the Hundred and then against India,\u201d Stokes said as quoted by \u2018Daily Mirror\u2019.<\/p>\n
While playing for the Rajasthan Royals in the IPL, Stokes fractured his finger.\u00a0In June and early July, he played six T20 Blast games for Durham, although he was not intended to play in the ODI or T20I leg of Pakistan\u2019s visit until a spate of COVID-19 cases in the England camp pushed the entire squad into self-isolation.<\/span><\/p>\n The England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) had no choice but to call Stokes and assign him captaincy at the last minute. England won the series by 3-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stokes will play for Northern Superchargers in the first few rounds of The Hundred before joining the England squad for the five-match Test series against India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":25665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[255,389],"class_list":["post-2579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-ben-stokes","tag-sports"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}