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Stokes is out to join an elite group of captains
The Gazette
|November 20, 2025
BEN Stokes has set his sights on joining the “lucky few” England captains to bring home the Ashes from Australian soil.
Stokes will lead his country out in Perth tomorrow charged with bringing the urn back and overturning a long losing run Down Under.
England have not won a match on their past three tours, losing 13 times and drawing twice, but believe they have the tools to follow in the footsteps of the side who won 3-1 in 2010-11.
Sir Andrew Strauss was in charge back then, one of only five postwar captains to taste Ashes glory behind enemy lines alongside Mike Gatting (1986-87), Mike Brearley (1978-79), Ray Illingworth (1970-71) and Sir Len Hutton (1954-55).
This story is from the November 20, 2025 edition of The Gazette.
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