{"id":324614,"date":"2025-08-07T07:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T07:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/324614\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T07:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T07:31:11","slug":"the-hundred-2025-ben-stokes-joins-northern-superchargers-as-a-mentor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/324614\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hundred 2025: Ben Stokes joins Northern Superchargers as a mentor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">England Test captain Ben Stokes has joined Northern Superchargers in The Hundred as a mentor.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stokes, who played five games for Superchargers across the 2021 and 2024 tournaments, will join the men&#8217;s team for the duration of this year&#8217;s competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In was announced in February that the all-rounder would miss the 100-ball competition this summer to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c9813dkwnjeo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">manage his fitness<\/a> before the Ashes in Australia this winter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having sustained a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/clyvjd566e2o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shoulder injury<\/a> that ruled him out of the fifth Test between England and India, Stokes would not have been fit to play in any case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the 34-year-old will still hope to make an impact by providing his expertise as he joins head coach Andrew Flintoff&#8217;s backroom staff at the Superchargers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England Test captain Ben Stokes has joined Northern Superchargers in The Hundred as a mentor. Stokes, who played&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-324614","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\/114986319109989294","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324614","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=324614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}