Ben Stokes signed off from one-day international cricket with defeat to South Africa and a warning to the sport’s administrators that players “are not cars that you can fill up with petrol and let us go”.
The hero of the 2019 World Cup victory won his 105th and final ODI cap at Chester-le-Street on Tuesday after deciding he can no longer commit to all three formats. He will now focus his energies on captaining England’s Test team, plus a Twenty20 career.
