England are hopeful star all-rounder Ben Stokes will “unretire” from ODI cricket in time for the defence of their 50-over World Cup in India subsequent yr. Stokes performed a significant position in England’s current World Cup ultimate wins. While he scored an unbeaten 53 towards Pakistan within the T20 World Cup ultimate on Sunday, he had remained unbeaten on 92 towards New Zealand throughout the summit conflict of the 50-over marquee occasion in 2019. However, the 31-year-old Test skipper introduced his retirement from the 50-over format earlier this yr, saying enjoying three codecs had change into “unsustainable” for him.

Matthew Mott, who took over as England’s white-ball coach in May, hopes to steer Stokes to reverse his ODI retirement.

“When he spoke to me about his ODI retirement one of the first things I said was that I’d back any decision he made. But I said to him he didn’t necessarily have to retire – he could just not play 50-overs for a while,” Mott advised reporters.

“I did say you could always unretire.

“That’s his determination. It’s going to be a World Cup yr and we do not play a lot T20 cricket for some time however it is going to be a choice that is as much as him,” he added.

Mott said the all-rounder is vital cog in the England’s scheme of things in white-ball cricket.

“The extra we will get him is nice. He’s doing an incredible job with the Test captaincy however he’s a really huge cog within the wheel when he comes again to white-ball.

“He’s a three-dimensional player and he has so much to offer.

“In this crew he was the glue – I believe now we have quite a lot of guys who can do extraordinary issues however he was the participant you knew that if he was in you’d win the sport,” he added.

Stokes is expected to enter his name in the IPL auction, to be held in Kochi on December 23.

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