BEN STOKES (ENG)

Yes, you might think, what an all-rounder like Ben Stokes is doing in this list. After all, he is England’s most prized possession and he has repaid the trust put on him by playing some magnificent innings and picking important wickets at crucial times.

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However, we are talking about Ben Stokes the batsman, who often comes in the middle order and either power the innings to a blazing finish or rebuilds it with help of top-order batsmen or tail-enders. His record is very good just as a batsman itself. 4056 runs in 63 Tests, 2682 runs in 95 ODIs and 305 runs in 26 T20I matches, is what Ben Stokes boasts of; which is not bad for someone who bats at no.6 most of the times.

Stokes has the ability to keep his cool and calm and take the team to a victory or he can also blast the opposition to smithereens with big shots, as he showed in his epic 135* at Headingly during the 2019 Ashes series. Also, no one can forget his innings which won the World Cup for England in the finals when he almost single-handedly kept England in the game until the end.