{"id":294600,"date":"2025-07-27T00:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T00:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/294600\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T00:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T00:36:11","slug":"england-v-india-ben-stokes-fitness-uncertain-going-into-final-day-in-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/294600\/","title":{"rendered":"England v India: Ben Stokes’ fitness uncertain going into final day in Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stokes had surgery on his left hamstring in January, having torn the same muscle last summer and had a knee operation in November 2023. <\/p>\n

He only returned to bowling in late May during the one-off Test against Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n

Still, Stokes has been England’s most consistent seamer this summer. His 16 wickets in the series are the most on either side.<\/p>\n

However, the 129 overs has has bowled is his biggest workload in a single series, despite Trescothick saying after the second hamstring tear in December he may have to manage his bowling workloads<\/a>. There are also only three days off before the fifth Test next week.<\/p>\n

Trescothick suggested England’s management still needs to find a way to protect Stokes, who will be seeking to help England regain the Ashes in Australia later in the year.<\/p>\n

“You have to manage everyone – him no different because of his impact as captain of the team you want him playing as many games as possible,<\/p>\n

“If we can find a way [to limit his overs], of course it will benefit. The more games he will string together as captain and leader the better that will be for the team.”<\/p>\n

India batting coach Sitanshu Kotak said wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant will bat if required despite his broken foot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stokes had surgery on his left hamstring in January, having torn the same muscle last summer and had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-294600","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\/114922401606357036","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294600","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=294600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}