Stokes: My and Alex’s goal is to win the World Cup

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Stokes: My and Alex’s goal is to win the World Cup

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8 Sep 22 14:29:07

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England all-rounder Ben Stokes said he appreciates the latest inclusion of Alex Hales in the T20 World Cup squad and have the same goal to win the title.

Hales has been recalled as a replacement for Jonny Bairstow, who suffered an injury while playing golf last week.

“My goal, Alex’s goal and everyone else’s goal who is part of that squad is to win the World Cup,” said Stokes.

“Alex is definitely one of the best T20 players in the world and unfortunately with what happened with Jonny we had to call another player up," he further added.

Hales has been in terrific form and has played some match-winning knocks in different franchise leagues. He has been a highly rated player, especially in the Australian Big Bash League, where he has scored 926 runs in the last two seasons.

“Alex is definitely one of the guys that bowlers don’t want to be bowling at in the T20 format,” he said.

“But when it comes down to the big moments in games and World Cup games, knockout games, you want your best players there to be taking that pressure on and he (Hales) certainly is one of those,” he added.