Ashes: We’ll acquire Ben Stokes with open arms if he returns, says Chris Woakes

Chris Woakes says all-rounder Stokes will get a comfortable accepting from teammates if he joins a England patrol for ongoing Ashes series

England all-rounder Ben Stokes arrives in Christchurch yesterday. Pic/Getty Images
England all-rounder Ben Stokes arrives in Christchurch yesterday. Pic/Getty Images

A day after dangling English all-rounder Ben Stokes lifted conjecture of his probable appearance in a ongoing Ashes by drifting to New Zealand for a domestic cricket tournament, his teammate Chris Woakes pronounced England will acquire Stokes with open arms. “As an England group we’d like to see him here. As a player, as a crony I’d like to see him here,” Woakes was quoted as observant by BBC radio.

Chris Woakes
Chris Woakes

“No one likes to see what he’s been through. Of course, we’d have him here with open arms, I’m sure. Ben’s a world-class cricketer and he’d make any group in a universe improved so it’d be stupid of us to not open it adult for him to come into a squad.” Stokes was primarily named in a Ashes patrol for a debate of Australia though was stood down following his detain on guess of causing tangible corporeal mistreat during a fight in Bristol during England’s ODI array opposite a West Indies dual months ago. Stokes arrived in New Zealand, after a England and Wales Cricket Board final week postulated him a No Objection Certificate.

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