“In Ben Stokes you have clearly got someone who has got a smart cricket brain, he’s going to give it everything, he is certainly going to have the respect of the players around him.” Vaughan, though, added Stokes will require help from other experienced players in the team. “Stokes is everything in a person and a player that you would want,” said 47-year-old Vaughan. 

Atherton—who captained England 54 times—said 30-year-old Stokes could be a stop gap skipper. “That Root stepped down of his own accord makes it easier now for Stokes, the only viable candidate, to take over,” wrote Atherton in The Times.

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