Ben Stokes fathoms why his omission from T20 squad made people upset

Golden Boy of English Cricket, star all-rounder Ben Stokes acknowledged the reason why his omission from T20 squad made people upset. England is scheduled to play a T20I against visitors West Indies at Durham, which is also the home ground for the English star.

Stokes has been on fire this season for England and had a brilliant Test match as Headingley with both bat and ball. He smashed yet another ton in Test Cricket and backed it up with a half century in the second innings. In the ongoing Test match at Lord’s, he claimed a six-wicket haul in the West Indian batting effort

That said, he was omitted out of the T20 squad scheduled to take on West Indies for the one-off T20 game to provide rest to the star player for the Three Lions. It is learnt that his club, Durham, had put in a lot of effort to promote the game around Stokes.”I feel for the people at the club who have put in so much hard work around this game and built a lot of our promotion around Ben,” claimed Ian Botham according to his column in Mirror.

Stokes insists that the rest provided will do him a world of good

“It has been an interesting couple of days with everything around that. It was a collective decision from myself, [coach] Trevor Bayliss and the selectors. With the game being played at my local ground where I’ve played all of my cricket I understand that people are going to be upset,” commented Ben Stokes according to his interview with Sky Sports.

“Being an all-forms player, it’s very tough to get a rest – even if it is just two or three days here or there, it can do your body a lot of good. It’s just unfortunate that it’s coincided with it being at Durham. I think that if it was at another ground it probably wouldn’t be such a big issue,” added the star all-rounder.

“We’ve got such a big winter coming up and the five ODIs against the Windies after the Twenty20s. It was a decision made that it was probably best to rest me then rather than in one of the five ODIs that we’ve got,” concluded a far-sighted Ben Stokes.