{"id":84949,"date":"2026-09-01T09:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T09:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/84949\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T09:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T09:59:09","slug":"ben-stokes-gives-adelaide-strikers-massive-bbl-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/84949\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Stokes gives Adelaide Strikers massive BBL boost"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former England captain Ben Stokes will be available for the Adelaide Strikers’ entire campaign in a massive boost for the Big Bash League.<\/p>\n

After his bombshell retirement from international cricket in June, Stokes has wasted no time in entertaining offers from T20 leagues.<\/p>\n

Also weighing up offers from the Sydney Sixers and the in-transition Melbourne Renegades, the matchwinning allrounder settled on the Strikers and is sure to help bring in big crowds to the Adelaide Oval.<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old previously played in the BBL back in 2014-15, featuring in four matches for the Renegades, before he was one of the biggest names in world cricket.<\/p>\n

“Adelaide Oval is an incredible place to play cricket, the Big Bash is a fantastic competition and the Strikers have an exciting group, so I’m looking forward to meeting the players, getting stuck in and contributing to a successful season,” Stokes said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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Superstar Ben Stokes is looking forward to joining the Strikers at Adelaide Oval. (AP PHOTO)<\/p>\n

“I can’t wait to get started, create some special memories with the group and give Strikers fans plenty to cheer about.”<\/p>\n

The 122-Test star will be led by Adelaide coach Tim Paine, who \u00a0captained Australia when Stokes belted a classic unbeaten century to help England to a defining win at Headingley in 2019.<\/p>\n

“Ben is one of the greatest allrounders the game has seen, a proven match-winner and a competitor who thrives under pressure,” Paine said.<\/p>\n

“We’re thrilled to have a player of his ability join our squad and can’t wait to see him put on a show.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former England captain Ben Stokes will be available for the Adelaide Strikers’ entire campaign in a massive boost…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[395,139310,7690,3776,139313,139309,139311,139312],"class_list":["post-84949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-adelaide","tag-adelaide","tag-ben-stokes","tag-england","tag-melbourne-renegades","tag-paine","tag-stokes","tag-strikers","tag-t20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}