Ben Stokes

Ben Stokes is an England all-rounder. The ECB lists his playing role as All Rounder, with left-hand batting and right-arm bowling. This profile uses the display name Ben Stokes; the fuller name Benjamin Andrew Stokes is widely used in public cricket references and is recorded here with that multi-source note.

Date of birth (4 June 1991) is taken from BBC Sport England squad materials because the ECB player page checked for this profile does not display a date of birth field. Finer bowling labels such as exact pace bands can vary by source; Crichub keeps the description aligned with the ECB role listing plus a commonly published right-arm fast-medium note.

Stokes's international pathway ended after he announced retirement from international cricket in June 2026. County and other professional contracts after that date are separate from England national affiliation and are not modelled here unless independently verified for Crichub.

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The ECB international retirement announcement describes Stokes as a white-ball international from 2011 and a Test debutant at Adelaide in December 2013, with Test captaincy from April 2022. Those milestones are summarised from ECB materials rather than reconstructed as invented statistics.

On 28 June 2026 the ECB published that Stokes would retire from international cricket after the third Test against New Zealand at Trent Bridge. Crichub therefore records England as a former national relationship, not a current one. Post-retirement club activity must not be read as renewed England selection.

Ben Stokes does not appear on the official TATA IPL 2026 player retentions announcement (checked 2026-11-10). No current IPL franchise link is modelled.

Historical IPL seasons sometimes attributed to Stokes in secondary reporting remain unverified against season-by-season official contracts for this profile, so they are not written into the teams array. County cricket sits outside Crichub's first-batch franchise entities and is omitted from structured links. No future franchise arrangement is speculated here.