Ben Stokes, the current captain of the England test team, has recently announced his retirement from the one-day international format of cricket. Many fans and lovers of Ben Stokes got sudden shock by his sudden announcement that he would play the last game of his one-day international career against South Africa, in an answer to a reporter.
Just after the completion of the one-day international series against India, the England team headed to another new ODI series against South Africa just after the break of a solo day. Kevin Pietersen who was also the former skipper of the England team has made a fresh tweet over the probable reason why Ben stokes has with the ODI format.
“Highly Hectic Schedule Of England Cricket, Which Might Exhaust Ben Stokes”.
In his tweet, he manifested the situation which happened to him in the period of 2012 to 2014. Many experts of the cricket fraternity are also using their brain drain to detect the actual reason behind the shocking announcement from Ben Stokes and almost all of them have come to the same conclusion as Kevin Pietersen is indicating.
The intensity of the compact schedule of England cricket has easily been detected from the current ongoing series which happened against India where nearly a gap of 2 days has been kept between two fixtures and also just after the completion of the ODI series against India, the new one day series has initiated just after the break of a day.
A few years back Eoin Morgan had also once complained about the over-engagement of England cricket in the international sphere of fixtures. So, this is the same thing that came in. Kevin Pietersen has also targeted in his recently posted tweet, he said in it, “I Once Said The Schedule Was Horrendous And I Couldn’t Cope, So I Retired From ODI Cricket & The ECB Banned Me From T20s Too”.
I once said the schedule was horrendous and I couldn’t cope, so I retired from ODI cricket & the ECB banned me from T20s too………….🤣
— Kevin Pietersen🦏 (@KP24) July 19, 2022
— Kevin Pietersen🦏 (@KP24) July 19, 2022
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