View image in fullscreenBen Stokes with the man-of-the-match award at the Under-19 World Cup having scored a century against India.Photograph: Phil Walter/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenStokes poses with the England squad at Lord’s before departing for his first Ashes tour in 2013.Photograph: Tom Shaw/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenBowling on Test debut in Adelaide in 2013.Photograph: Philip Brown/Popperfoto/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenMitchell Starc gives Stokes a send-off on day one of the first Ashes Test in Cardiff in 2015.Photograph: Ryan Pierse/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenEnjoying winning the Ashes at the Oval in 2015 with Joe Root.Photograph: Gareth Copley/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenJumping for joy after taking the wicket of South Africa’s Dean Elgar at Newlands in 2016.Photograph: Julian Finney/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenRunning out Sri Lanka’s Lahiru Thirimanne at the World Twenty20 in 2016. Photograph: Gareth Copley/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenTaking a tumble during a one-day international in Barbados in 2017.Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenTaking a blow to the helmet against Australia at Headingley in 2019.Photograph: Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenIconic image having hit the winning runs in the third Ashes Test at Headingley in 2019.Photograph: Anthony Devlin/AFP/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenLifting the World Cup at Lord’s in 2019 after victory against New Zealand in the final.Photograph: Gareth Copley-ICC/ICC/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenOfficial portrait before the 2019 Ashes. Photograph: Gareth Copley/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenExhausted in the dressing room after his match-winning heroics at Headingley in 2019.Photograph: Stu Forster/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenWith his OBE at Buckingham Palace in 2020. Photograph: WPA/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenCelebrating winning the Twenty20 World Cup in 2022 after victory against Pakistan in Melbourne.Photograph: Surjeet Yadav/AFP/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenHolding the Twenty20 World Cup aloft in 2022.Photograph: Martin Keep/AFP/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenAnnouncing his shock retirement from international cricket to his England teammates at Trent Bridge.Photograph: ECBShareView image in fullscreenReceiving a guard of honour as he walks out for the final session as an England player.Photograph: Gareth Copley/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenWheeling away in delight after taking the wicket of Zak Foulkes moments after his retirement was announced at Trent Bridge.Photograph: Philip Brown/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenThe departing captain is mobbed by his teammates. Photograph: Gareth Copley/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenWearing his England blazer on the first day of the series against New Zealand at Lord’s.Photograph: Gareth Copley/ECB/Getty ImagesShare
