Mark Wood has rejected Eoin Morgan’s assertion that Ben Stokes’ return will be key to England’s chances of recovering from their dismal start to the Cricket World Cup, the bowler insisting the team’s recovery “is not all just about the Messiah Stokesy coming back and doing everything”.
Morgan made his comments in a column for the ICC reflecting on England’s bruising nine-wicket defeat to New Zealand in their opening game, which Stokes sat out with a hip injury. But Wood, who said he was “a bit battered mentally from watching the ball going over my head a lot of times”, insisted recovery would be down to the entire group of players rather than one individual.
