ODI World Cup 2023

Ben Stokes shares horrible auto rickshaw incident happened with him in India

England suffered its fourth loss of the tournament against Sri Lanka.

Oct 27, 2023 7:15 pm

England is having a tough time in the ongoing ODI World Cup 2023. In 5 matches in the tournament so far, England has won only one match and lost four of them to find themselves at the bottom of the points table. In the first match, England lost to New Zealand. Though England made a temporary comeback to beat Bangladesh, they lost three matches in a row after that.

In the last three matches, England lost to Afghanistan, South Africa, and Sri Lanka respectively. The loss against Afghanistan hurt England badly. In Mumbai, England was hammered by South Africa for their biggest defeat in the ODI World Cup. Sri Lanka reduced England to just 156 runs and chased it down with 147 balls to spare. It has left the fans of England angry at their team.

One of the main players in England, Ben Stokes, could not start in the tournament due to an injury. Stokes finally came to the side in the game against South Africa. Yet, he has not been able to perform as well as one would have liked. Recently, Stokes shared a scary incident he experienced with Liam Livingstone in an auto rickshaw in India. Along with Andy Mitchell, England’s strength and conditioning coach, the two took a ride on rickshaw.

You can imagine that we were pretty squashed in the back of his tuk-tuk – Stokes

In an interview, Stokes shared what happened with them in the journey. “So, me and Livi [Liam Livingstone] are pretty big lads, and we also had our strength and conditioning coach, Mitch [Andy Mitchell], who is even bigger than us. Now, tuk-tuk’s aren’t very big. So, you can imagine that we were pretty squashed in the back of his tuk-tuk,” said Stokes in the interview.

The England player said that there was enough space for the three to sit. he continued the narration and said, “This is the one I got [shows the video on his phone]… We were just running up to the roundabout here. Does not slow down and, yeah, there he goes!” Stokes then showed a video on his phone.