London — Andrew Strauss has urged Ben Stokes to keep his feet on the ground after the England all-rounder earned hero status for his role in their incredible World Cup final triumph.
“What will be hard for Ben going forward is the levels of adulation he’ll receive,” Strauss said on Tuesday. “That was a burden for Freddie Flintoff. He often lived up to it and that was great, but increasingly you are under more and more pressure to be the man every time you play, and that is a big burden.”
Strauss was director of England cricket at the time and was present when Stokes was released from his police cell before helping guide him through the aftermath. “From that moment on, I thought this was going to be a good thing for him. It was very hard to know which way it was going to go. People can go two ways after something like that happens to them.
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