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Ben: 'Biggest series' of my England captaincy
Sunderland Echo
|November 21, 2025
England captain Ben Stokes believes the next two months of Ashes cricket will be the most important series of his career.
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The latest instalment in one of sport’s most enduring rivalries began this morning in Perth in front of a sellout 60,000 crowd.
It has been billed as a battle that will define the legacy of the entire ‘Bazball’ era and Stokes accepts the hype is justified.
This story is from the November 21, 2025 edition of Sunderland Echo.
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