I'm John Batcheter, the Friends of History Debating Society and Jeremy Zachus is here, my guide on

cricket. I'm learning having never played the game as a younger person or even as a senior

person. I'm picking up the language, you notice I use the word

POMS. That's supposed to be a gentle way to speak of the English team when you're an

Australian. It doesn't really work for an American because we don't

know anything about cricket. But I'm following Jeremy's lead. All right, who is Ben Stokes and

what are we watching for, Jeremy? Well John Ben Stokes and what are we watching for Jeremy? Well John, Ben Stokes is the English

cricket captain. He's been around for literally two decades. He's a very, very good player.

He's a very, very strong player. and he is also our arch nemesis in the

Australian sides because he's also a very, very good captain. But he's also the first

English captain that bring in Bazball to the game of cricket and Bazball being a very offensive

very psychological way to play cricket basically fake out the other team in some ways so

that they think you're better than you are and it basically that wins the game.

But what we're actually watching now is that at the end of the season, the main international cricket season, only about a month ago, Ben Stokes were starting to suffer some injuries and it was really just the typical

injuries of cricket bowler gets because he's by trade naturally a bowler where

he's got upper body injuries where effectively the ligaments are starting to

effectively tear and and his bowling style was starting to get weaker.

But what we have just seen in the past week is that he's gone into a county league

cricket club cycle, which means that during the very downtime of cricket around the world

which is basically this month of May and then a bit into June a lot of the professional

cricketers who are injured go into these local county leagues to basically go through a recovery

and basically a repatriation process for their own muscles. So we've seen Ben Stokes now playing for

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