{"id":4782,"date":"2022-11-29T21:32:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T16:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=260406"},"modified":"2022-11-29T21:32:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T16:02:06","slug":"pak-vs-eng-england-skipper-ben-stokes-delights-fans-with-this-incredible-gesture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/pak-vs-eng-england-skipper-ben-stokes-delights-fans-with-this-incredible-gesture\/","title":{"rendered":"PAK vs ENG: England skipper Ben Stokes delights fans with this incredible gesture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England captain Ben Stokes is present with team for the significant Test series against the booming Pakistan. The English squad will be playing a test game against Pakistan for the first time in 17 years, having lastly clashed in 2005. Ben Stokes made a major announcement of donating his match fees from the upcoming Test series to the Pakistan Flood appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Stokes\u2019 post stated \u2013 \u201cIt is great to be in Pakistan for the first time for this historic series.<\/p>\n<p>To be back here after 17 years as a Test side is very exciting. There is a sense of responsibility amongst the playing and support group and to be here is special.<\/p>\n<p>The floods that devastated Pakistan earlier this year was very sad to see and has had significant impact on the country and the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A fantastic gesture from the skipper \ud83d\udc4f<\/p>\n<p>Show your support to the Pakistan Flood appeal: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MT7YKe1ZJ5\">https:\/\/t.co\/MT7YKe1ZJ5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf0 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PAKvENG?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PAKvENG<\/a> \ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc65\udb40\udc6e\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc7f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hKzT8lMtcw\">https:\/\/t.co\/hKzT8lMtcw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 England Cricket (@englandcricket) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/englandcricket\/status\/1597171523600752640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe game has given me a lot in my life and I feel it\u2019s only right to give something back that goes far beyond cricket. I will be donating my match fees from this Test series to the Pakistan Flood appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully this donation can go towards the rebuilding of areas of Pakistan most affected by the flooding.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m donating my match fees from this Test series to the Pakistan Flood appeal \u2764\ufe0f\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf0 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BgvY0VQ2GG\">pic.twitter.com\/BgvY0VQ2GG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Stokes (@benstokes38) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benstokes38\/status\/1597170046857465856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England captain Ben Stokes is present with team for the significant Test series against the booming Pakistan. The English squad\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":27785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[255,741,3432,3424,216],"class_list":["post-4782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-ben-stokes","tag-brendon-mccullum","tag-england","tag-pakistan","tag-test"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782","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\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}