Stokes steps up with a rallying cry to get on front foot

LET'S DOMINATE SAYS BEN

- Dean Wilson

WHEN Ben Stokes speaks, people tend to listen.

And in a rallying cry to his World Cup team-mates, he has told them it is time to start disrupting once more.

Having watched a stunning defeat by Afghanistan, the Test captain took the floor in the dressing room after head coach Matthew Mott had spoken and made it clear where England had gone wrong.

Flat, tentative, all ways to performance reactionary were describe England's and Stokes could see it from his vantage point as 12th man, running drinks and trying to encourage from the boundary.

Now that he is set to return to the team for their next match, against South Africa in Mumbai on Saturday, he will be able to put into practice what he has been preaching, is to be assertive and which unsettle the opposition.