{"id":52090,"date":"2024-01-25T03:50:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T03:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/ben-stokes-out-as-bowler-after-surgery-focuses-on-batting-for-now\/"},"modified":"2024-01-25T03:50:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T03:50:02","slug":"ben-stokes-out-as-bowler-after-surgery-focuses-on-batting-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/ben-stokes-out-as-bowler-after-surgery-focuses-on-batting-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Stokes out as bowler after surgery, focuses on batting for now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure class=\"featuredimg\">\n <\/p>\n<p class=\"captionimg\">Ben Stokes out as bowler after surgery, focuses on batting for now<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Ben Stokes is unlikely to bowl in the India series due to recent knee surgery.<\/li>\n<li>He aims to return to bowling by summer, focusing on batting for now.<\/li>\n<li>He underwent meniscus repair and bone spur removal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ben Stokes, the captain of England, stated that he probably won\u2019t be bowling anytime soon due to recent surgery. However, the seam-bowling all-rounder continued, saying he will do everything in his power to play every part.<\/p>\n<p>Following the 2023 World Cup, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bolnews.com\/sports\/2023\/10\/icc-world-cup-2023-ben-stokes-likely-to-miss-second-match-against-bangladesh\/\">Stokes<\/a> had surgery due to a problematic knee. The 32-year-old had a strict rehabilitation regimen in front of the India tour and participated in the 10-team competition in India as a pure batter.<\/p>\n<p>During a news conference, Stokes acknowledged that bowling is not his current forte, but he believes he can improve throughout the summer. He stated, as reported by The Telegraph:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBowling is such an unnatural thing for the body to go through that it\u2019s not going to be a case of right, I\u2019m good now, straight back into bowling. Remember the last ball I bowled was actually in the Ashes at Lord\u2019s (in June).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo my body is nowhere near ready to even be thinking about competitive bowling at the moment, but if I get to a stage in this tour where we can start building myself back up to bowling; then, hopefully, by the summer, that\u2019s where I\u2019ve earmarked as playing a full role I want to be doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Due to a knee ailment that initially developed during the February 2023 tour of New Zealand, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bolnews.com\/sports\/2023\/10\/ben-stokes-in-doubt-for-englands-world-cup-opener\/\">Stokes<\/a> was forced to miss nearly the whole IPL season in order to recover in time for the Ashes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had some stitches put in my meniscus, and I had a big bone spur taken out of my knee. It was a bit more than (just) a clean-out. It\u2019s not like you have surgery, and you are immediately better. Surgery is always the last option.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSurgeries can go very well, but they can also sometimes not go too well, and set people back even further, and potentially even end careers. I\u2019m 32 now, and sport isn\u2019t here forever. I want to play for England as long as I possibly can. 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Protect Stokes for upcoming&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bolnews.com\/sports\/2023\/11\/steve-harmison-says-show-some-leadership-and-send-ben-stokes-home\/\" class=\"post-link\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Stokes out as bowler after surgery, focuses on batting for now Ben Stokes is unlikely to bowl in the India series due to recent knee surgery. He aims to return to bowling by summer, focusing on batting for now. He underwent meniscus repair and bone spur removal. Ben Stokes, the captain of England, stated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.bolnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/FotoJet-2024-01-24T135759.693.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}