A biography for Ben Stokeshasn’t been written yet.
“Pune is one of my favorite grounds.”
“It's one of the greatest sporting environments you can be in, the first morning of an Ashes series. It's hard to explain, you can only really explain it when you're out there. It's awesome.”
“We shouldn't be too critical of players if they do have lean patches.”
“For me it is about always trying to find ways to improve and get better.”
“In a World Cup final the adrenalin is going. Emotion sometimes get the better of me but that is adrenalin and wanting us to do well.”
“It's not as if I ever left the pitch thinking 'I wish I'd given a bit more today.' You were always going to get everything from me.”
“Getting the opportunity to captain England is a huge honour - even if it's only the once you can still say 'yeah, I've captained England.'”
“As a batter, I just try to put myself in a bubble, not letting anything in from the outside, looking only at how many runs I can score.”
“You don't have niggles when you're 20. But as you get older you start to feel it.”
“I think sometimes I have been drawn into trying to be too aggressive too early. I have learnt that I can give myself time.”
“I love playing against these guys who have the same attitude to the game that I have.”
“I don't need to be going out reverse-sweeping for six and four straightaway. Singles can be just as important as boundaries, rotating the strike and not letting the bowlers settle.”
“As a kid I lost my temper quite easily and tended to look away from the game itself. Now I know how to manage that and get the best out of myself.”
“I always look to perform with the bat and the ball and do good for my team.”
“It was just bred in me that I would not back down to guys who were bigger than me.”
“As players ourselves, to inspire other players to do what we do is awesome.”
“We've got to be good enough to put runs on board.”
“You do what you have to do to get an advantage.”
“You can never beat your own mind when it plays tricks on you.”
“Being out there, as a 22-year-old, it opens your eyes up to the highest level of the sport. It can only do good things.”