Michael Atherton says England should weigh up the potential threat to their Ashes possibilities in the event that they hand Ben Stokes the captaincy in one-day worldwide cricket.
England males’s managing director Rob Key instructed the Take a look at skipper was a candidate to steer within the 50-over sport following Jos Buttler’s resignation from each white-ball roles after the chastening group-stage exit on the Champions Trophy.
Stokes has remodeled England’s red-ball aspect alongside Brendon McCullum since 2022 when the pair took over a staff that had gained one among their earlier 17 matches.
Nevertheless, the all-rounder has suffered two severe hamstring accidents of late, after a protracted interval coping with a power knee concern, and Atherton is aware of Stokes’ workload forward of an era-defining Take a look at sequence in Australia from November.
Athers: England will not win Ashes with out Stokes as captain
Former England captain Atherton advised Sky Sports activities Information: “There isn’t any doubting that Stokes is the excellent captain, the excellent chief, in English cricket.
“That is not the problem. The difficulty is round his health as he has had fairly extreme hamstring accidents and struggled to get by the cricket he has been requested to play.
“In the long run, the Key-McCullum-Stokes venture goes to be outlined by the ten Checks this 12 months – 5 towards India at house after which the Ashes away.
“A lot of the structures they have put in place have been designed to get that side right for the Ashes so that is the question.
“It is what you might be shedding if he will get injured and might’t captain towards India and Australia as a result of with out Stokes captaining in Australia, I do not suppose England will win.”
Key: Stokes one among greatest captains I’ve ever seen
Talking earlier this week, Key advised reporters: “I believe nothing’s off the desk [in terms of the England captaincy]. You take a look at each single possibility and also you suppose, ‘what’s the neatest thing to do?’
“Ben Stokes is likely one of the greatest captains I’ve ever seen, so it would be silly not to have a look at him. It is simply the knock-on impact of what meaning.
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“He’s an unbelievably good tactician, which we’ve seen in Test cricket, but he’s a leader of men. He’s someone who gets the best out of people.
“He is somebody that, when the stress is actually on, he is in a position to throw a blanket across the gamers and really say, ‘no, no, that is the best way ahead. Preserve going with it’.
“We don’t want to risk other things as well. But there’s always a way in England, I think, where you start looking at, ‘what if it goes wrong?’
“You have additionally acquired to suppose, ‘what if it goes proper?’. They’re the selections that I’ve to make.”
