Ben Stokes retires from Test cricket | The Wisdom & Experience of Robert Craddock (29.06.26)
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What led to Ben Stokes' retirement announcement?
The Ben Stokes retirement and how it all played out yesterday. It is divisive. He's been a great cricketer. There was a lot of me, me, me about what happened on the fourth day of the third and deciding test match. At the end of it, England's look in a position lost. We'll see how day five pans out. Ben Stokes' involvement is finished. He bowled. an over in which his retirement was announced and immediately took a wicket. We played you that early in the program. He opened the batting and thrashed around for a little while but didn't improve England's position, and they do look headed for defeat in the series. Here's Ben Stokes post-play.
It's the best thing that I've ever been asked to do, which is captain this team and captain this country. I'll never begrudge any moment where I've captained the team and walked the team out. It's simply the greatest honour you could ever put on your shoulders as a player. And then the emotional side of this since Australia, The way I said it to my wife was actually, I don't actually think I have any more fight left in me to get over this, to be honest.
No fight left in him after the Ashes summer. So that was, it's so interesting. It fits with the overall. Ben Stokes left to a hero's farewell as the walls of English cricket collapsed behind him. It's been such an odd time.
How did Ben Stokes' captaincy impact the England team?
They'll study it in universities. Luckily, we have the wisdom and experience of Robert Craddock every Monday. For Alex Scott and staff to sell your livestock or sell your home. Hello to you, Crash.
Yeah, g'day, Gerard. I wasn't expecting that one today. But he leaves an angry man, doesn't he? An unfulfilled man.
What were the circumstances surrounding Stokes' final match?
And I know he said he had nothing left to give. And, you know, the temptation is to say to you, sometimes retirement announcements can hit a player just out of nowhere. I mean, Ian Chappell always says that he was in the field in a Sheffield Shield game and looked at the clock and thought it must be lunch. And there was an hour till lunch. And he thought, I'm done. Greg Chappell once got run out in a test. in Sydney and he just his mind wasn't on the job and he thought I'm it hit him then he had to go but this was different this was a man who felt let down by the management and you could tell by the way he batted yesterday opening the batting a brazen outrageous 30 off 20 balls as if to say it was almost like an up yours to laws innings and I just think he leaves an angry man and
I feel a bit sad that it's ended this way amid broken curfews and failed regimes and the collapse of legacies involved in all of this. But maybe as a centrepiece of it all, this started as a revolution and right now he falls and it's hard to imagine he's the only leader who falls in the short term.
Oh, well, exactly. I mean, Brendan McCollum, where does it leave him as coach? I think I would love to know the inner story of how he's currently getting on with Ben Stokes because there was always the word that drifted back to us over the last couple of weeks, Gerard, when Ben Stokes was dropped from a test for breaking the team curfew after their first test win yesterday. He said to management, hang on a minute, hang on a minute. Harry Brooke copped nothing for punching a bouncer in New Zealand. I've copped a match for missing a midnight curfew, which I wasn't even sure existed because the test had ended. How is that fair? They thought he would sort of maybe stand down from the captaincy. He went the other way.
He got angry and he fought it. And we've since heard in the last few hours that this decision, it wasn't made today or overnight. He notified his family quietly about a week ago. I think they were all in a corporate box at Trent Bridge. They were waiting for it. There was the choreographed filming of his announcement to the players before play that it was announced that he took a wicket of his first ball. There is an element of sadness, Gerard, because he was just such an entertainer and so important to England that the instant he retired, Australia became firm favourites to win the Ashes in England next year, which they haven't done since 2001.
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