Stokes has showed good all-round performance in the #RaiseTheBat series.
Cricket analyst and ex-cricketer Aakash Chopra rated England's Ben Stokes as the best all-rounder in the world, irrespective of the formats. Stokes is second in the ICC rankings in Test and ODI but very consistent in all three formats of the game.
Stokes scored a hundred in the second Test between England and West Indies and that has brought him in the discussion.
"At this point in time, I have no doubts in my mind that Ben Stokes is the no.1 all-rounder in the world across formats. If you look at Test cricket, he averages 43 (with the bat)...in ODIs he has an average of 59 while in T20Is his average is 33," Chopra said during his show AakashVani on his YouTube channel.
"His bowling average in Tests is 28. In ODIs, his average is 54, which is an anomaly. In T20Is his bowling average is 18.
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"There is no doubt that Ben Stokes is the best in the world currently and I sincerely hope that Hardik Pandya reaches that level. He was having a good run in his promising career but then back-to-back injuries saw him go back a bit."
Chopra believes India's Ravindra Jadeja can match the level but he still has a long way to go. "Jaddu (Ravindra Jadeja) I think is on that path but he hasn't reached there yet. Shakib obviously is there but rest, I don't think there is any player who comes even close to him," he added.
Stokes scored 176 in the second Test, before adding 43 & 46 in the first Test. He had picked up six wickets in the first match with the ball.