Ben Stokes has sounded the loudest warning to cricket suits over their demands on players by insisting they are humans and not machines.
Stokes has been forced to retire from one day cricket due to the heavy demands on his body across three formats and the increasingly squeezed nature of the games. Both during the winter and this summer England have banged white ball and red ball games up against each other with an ODI against the Netherlands being played the day before a Test.
Stokes reckons it is utterly unsustainable for players to be able to play all three formats thanks to the schedule and he has warned his bosses at the ECB that they are the ones who need to do something about it. Asked whether this should be a wake up call for cricket’s administrators Stokes agreed: “I guess so.
