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No room for 'weak men' says Stokes
The Chronicle
|December 08, 2025
CRICKET Beaten captain Ben Stokes has made it clear there is no room for “weak men” on England's faltering Ashes tour.
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Stokes’ side are 2-0 down with three to play after another deeply flawed performance in Brisbane and find themselves up against it on one of cricket’s most fierce trips.
Coming off the back of a two-day thrashing in Perth, there are serious question marks over the ability of his England team to react to the big occasion and time is running out for them to find an appropriate answer.
Stokes did his best to instil some fighting spirit on the fourth and final day at the Gabba, batting for almost four hours in a doomed show of defiance that put a flighty top order to shame, and had strong words afterwards.
“There is a saying that we have said a lot here, that Australia is not for weak men,” he said, after seeing the hosts chase down a tiny target of 65 with eight wickets intact.
This story is from the December 08, 2025 edition of The Chronicle.
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