England cricket captain Ben Stokes has admitted that thieves stole his bag during a recent visit to King's Cross station, London.
The Durham all-rounder is currently lapping up home time following a very busy winter, in which he helped England win a T20 World Cup. He also led the Test team to a 3-0 whitewash of Pakistan and managed an exciting 1-1 draw against a rivalling New Zealand.
31-year-old Stokes is now set to fly over to India, to compete with the Chennai Super Kings in the IPL. The franchise recently acquired his signature for a staggering £1.63million via auction.
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The Mirror reports however, after travelling to London from his home in Cumbria to watch the England rugby team play France in the Six Nations, Stokes had a bag stolen while at King's Cross.
Enraged, he Tweeted: "To who ever stole my bag at King's Cross train station. I hope my clothes are to big for you ya absolute ******."
Stokes is set for a bumper summer of cricket as he hopes to lead England to victory against rivals Australia and regain the Ashes for the first time since 2015.
Alongside new coach Brendon McCullum, Stokes has completely transformed England's fortunes in Test cricket as they have gone from a team that had won just one of their last 17 games to one that has won 10 in 12 while playing an exciting brand of cricket.
Their new ultra-positive and attacking style has been dubbed 'Bazball' after McCullum's nickname and he says England are hoping to "do something pretty special" this summer against Australia. "With the skipper in charge, I'm not sure what's possible for this side because he's a guy who writes his own scripts and achieves some pretty special things," McCullum said last month.
"I know the plans he has for this team are quite lofty and he'll try to do what he can to drag the boys along for the ride. It's been a good start. This year has been quite amazing.
"We know there are some big challenges in front of us as well but whatever happens we've achieved some pretty cool stuff over the last little while and if we can take forward the lessons we have learned from the past 10 or 11 months it will give us an opportunity to do something pretty special in the next little while."
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