Overview
- Ben Stokes has been appointed mentor of the Northern Superchargers in The Hundred 2025 as he continues to recover from a shoulder injury that ruled him out of the fifth Test against India.
- He will guide Andrew Flintoff’s Superchargers squad when they launch their campaign against Welsh Fire at Headingley.
- Stokes withdrew from this year’s Hundred competition in January after hamstring surgery in order to protect his fitness ahead of the Ashes series.
- The England captain secured 17 wickets and scored his first Test century in two years during the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy before his injury setback.
- The 34-year-old has previously appeared in five Hundred matches, tallying 14 runs and five wickets, and plans to combine mentoring duties with his rehabilitation.