{"id":293120,"date":"2025-07-26T11:03:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T11:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/293120\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T11:03:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T11:03:13","slug":"england-vs-india-captain-ben-stokes-good-to-go-on-day-four-says-ollie-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/293120\/","title":{"rendered":"England vs India: Captain Ben Stokes &#8216;good to go&#8217; on day four, says Ollie Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Much of the talk around Stokes&#8217; bowling at the start of the summer was about how he would have to limit himself to protect his body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite that, Stokes is the leading wicket-taker in the series with 16 and has bowled 129 overs across three and a half Tests. He only returned to bowling in the one-off Test against Zimbabwe in late May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On day one of the third Test at Lord&#8217;s Pope said he had to make sure Stokes &#8220;doesn&#8217;t push himself to a ridiculous place&#8221; after an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cpvj8nj8d9do\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">injury scare<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But, with the game on the line, Stokes bowled marathon spells of 9.2 and 10 overs as England secured victory on the final day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At Old Trafford he took 5-72 in the first innings &#8211; his first five-wicket haul since 2017. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m there to give him a nudge but he also gets this crazy look in his eye sometimes when you go over,&#8221; Pope said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Rooty [batter Joe Root] plays a similar role but there&#8217;s times when you can&#8217;t take the ball off him. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He gets his vision and that&#8217;s what makes him such a great cricketer.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Much of the talk around Stokes&#8217; bowling at the start of the summer was about how he would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-293120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114919204994455824","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}