Ben Stokes captaincy record: How many Tests has Ben Stokes won as England captain?

England Test captain Ben Stokes has managed to add another feather in the cap with respect to his captaincy career. With England playing Test cricket in Pakistan after 17 years, Stokes has become the third English captain after Ted Dexter and Nasser Hussain to win a Test series in this country.

Managing to defend a 300+ target for the second time in a row albeit in close encounters, victories in Rawalpindi and Multan have powered England to an unassailable 2-0 lead in a three-match series.

Irrespective of its duration, Stokes’ era as captain will always be talked about in association with head coach Brendon McCullum. Having laid emphasis on pushing for results even at the cost of losing on this tour of Pakistan, Stokes-McCullum partnership has convincingly managed to register a victory in its first overseas series.

It would be an understatement to say that Stokes and McCullum are inspiring this English team to play a fearless brand of cricket. In all honesty, Stokes and McCullum are making these players play in a way which has it in it to change the way Test cricket has been played for the last 145 years. Having justified their all-attack approach in Pakistan, England have become all the more dangerous ahead of Ashes 2023 at home.

Ben Stokes captaincy record (Updated on July 31, 2023)

Against West Indies in the summer of 2020, Stokes’ first Test as England captain had come with him covering for his predecessor Joe Root. It was only a couple of years later ahead of 2022’s English summer that Stokes was promoted as a full-time Test captain.

Stokes, who had led England to a loss in his first Test, has led them to a total of 13 wins and five losses in his 19-match captaincy career thus far. Stokes, who has led England to three Test series victories, is yet to lose a Test series as captain.

Ben Stokes Test match as captain full list (updated on July 31, 2023)

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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