IND vs. Eng: Ben Stokes breaks the silence on its availability for the Oval Test: ‘Very likely …’. Cricket news

England captain Ben Stokes on Sunday broke his silence about his availability for the fifth and final test of Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy, which was to be played at the Oval from Thursday.Stokes said he was suffering from pain in his right Bicep tendon-but he bowled only 12 overs during India’s tough battle in Old Trafford.Stokes said, “I don’t want to eat my words, but what I will not play is not very possible.”“Mentally, I am decent. Physically, I have been better.”The England captain said, “It has been a huge charge in this series so far.”“It was another big week in the third Test at Lord’s, and this week was the same again. Pain is just a feeling, so it is one of those things.“This is my bicep tendon. It is a lot of workload. It’s a lot of time in the middle. It’s not bad to do it. Hopefully, it settles down and will be good as gold for the previous game.”Stokes is going to take a leading wicket on both sides in the England-India series with 17 wickets-is the most successful bowling return in the 12-year Test career. The 140 overs in which he bowled in the series is also the highest charge of his career.“It has been a big five or six weeks,” he said. “I will always give everything that I can probably do. I ask the team to try to run through a brick wall, and I will always try to do so and lead for example. It is a difficult task to bowl and stay in the field, so I am too much.

“I think everyone is going to be very similar: stop it, relax, and give yourself the best chance of selection. I’ll not stay away from the fact that it’s a difficult a few days, especially for the bowling unit. We like to get our team out a few days ago, but we may have to take more time to give more and more time.“We are going above 2–1, but we want to put in that one big performance. We kept saying today: one last push before the last week is still very hard to go to this series.”