England test captain ben stokes: England’s Test team captain Ben Stokes kept his team firmly in the Anderson-Tendulkar series, but do you know that Stokes was born not in England but in New Zealand. Then after all, why these players are included in the England team instead of New Zealand, let’s know the answer to this question.

Ben Stokes connection to New Zealand

England team Test captain Ben Stokes was born in Christchurch, New Zealand. His mother also lived there. Stokes started her cricketing career from South Island, New Zealand. But at the age of 12, Stokes shifted his family England. After this, in 2010, Stokes was selected to play the World Cup in England’s Under-19 team. Within six years of coming to England, he started speaking completely like a British.

After England’s Under-19 team, Ben Stokes also managed to make a place in the senior team. Today Stokes appears as a successful captain of the England cricket team. Along with this, he is also a batsman and bowler.

Showed power in the series against India

England captain Ben Stokes was completely dominated in the first four matches of this series. Along with the captaincy of Stokes, there was a edge in his bowling. England won two matches out of the first four under Stokes captaincy and a match was drawn. At the same time, England had to face defeat in only one match. In the fifth Test due to stokes injury, Oli Pope took charge of the team, but the Indian bowlers snatched the match from England’s grip and drawn the series 2–2.

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England captain ben stokes: The Indian team lost the first Test match against England even after many players like Shubman Gill, Jasprit Bumrah, Rishabh Pant, Mohammad Siraj and Ravindra Jadeja were in the team. England won the Leeds Test match under the captaincy of Ben Stokes while holding five wickets. But even after winning the first match of the series from India, England captain Ben Stokes lagged behind Ravindra Jadeja in one case.

Ben Stokes lagged behind Ravindra Jadeja

After the final of the World Test Championship 2025, the new season of WTC has started. The new WTC season has started with the two-match Test series between Bangladesh-Sri Lanka. After this, the Test series started between India and England in world cricket. After the initial match of the new WTC season, the new ICC Test Ranking has surfaced, in which India’s all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja is ahead of Ben Stokes.

An against India, Ben Stokes performed strongly with both bat and ball, the result of which is being seen in the new ICC Test rankings. Stokes has gained three places in the official ranking of the Mains Test all-rounder. England captain has come at number five in this category. At the same time, India’s all-rounder player Ravindra Jadeja is still on top in this list.

Pant and Docket benefit

There has been no significant change in the ICC bowling rankings from the India-England Test match. At the same time, England’s opening batsman Ben Docket has made a great jump in the batting rankings. Ben Docket has come forward in the official ranking of ICC Mains Test Batting. Now he is at number eight in this list. At the same time, India’s wicketkeeper batsman Rishabh Pant has also benefited from scoring two centuries against England. Pant has moved forward in this list to seventh place.

Big Leap for England Opener Ben Ducket and Captain ben stokes in the latest ICC men’s rankings#WTC27 More https://t.co/irzq5boylf pic.twitter.com/p97t34l9lj

– ICC (@ICC) June 25, 2025

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Ben stokes reaction after rishabh pant shot: The first Test match between India and England is being played in Leeds. In this match, England won the toss and decided to bowl first. In response, the Indian team came to bat. India has pushed England to the backfoot in the first innings of this Test match. On the first day of the Leeds Test, a different competition was seen between Team India vice -captain Rishabh Pant and England captain Ben Stokes, whose video is going viral on social media.

Ben Stokes warns Rishabh Pant

When Rishabh Pant came to bat after India fell as the third wicket as India’s Yashasvi Jaiswal, England captain Ben Stokes stood in front of him. But Pant did not care about this at all and as soon as he came, he hit a four off Chauka Ben Stokes. After this, Stokes came to Pant and came to say something and started laughing. But Pant did not respond to Stokes. Ben Stokes was also stunned to see Pant’s hard shot.

Pant played stormy innings

Rishabh Pant has been made vice -captain in the Test series against England. Pant rescued the sixes of England bowlers on the first day of the Leeds Test. After the end of the first day’s play, Pant is batting for 65 runs in 102 balls. The vice -captain of Team India has so far hit 6 fours and 2 sixes in this innings. At the same time, captain Shubman Gill is standing at the crease from the second end. Gill is batting for 127 runs in 175 balls. India’s score has been 359 runs at the loss of three wickets after the first day’s play ends.

That’s some shot by one and only rishabh pant. #ENGVIND #INDVSENG pic.twitter.com/y1Dyl51a5L

– Wickets Hitting (@offpacedelivery) June 20, 2025

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