- Matches scheduled to take place on up to 50 of 102 days
- ‘The fact there is a Test match and ODI overlapping sums it up’
Ben Stokes has called for England’s “ridiculous” match schedule to be addressed as he prepares for a summer when there will be play on up to 50 of 102 days between the start of the first Test against New Zealand on 2 June and the end of the last match against South Africa on 12 September.
Next month the men’s Test team, of which Stokes is the newly appointed captain, will be assembled in England for their games against New Zealand while the white-ball squad is in the Netherlands for a three-match ODI series.
