'Rent Free and All That': Ben Stokes Hits Back at Australian Media Outlet For Sarcastic Dig at His Ashes 2023 Locker-Room Speech

England Test skipper, Ben Stokes’ speech which came to light in the recently released documentary series certainly piqued the interest of many cricket fans. But the all-rounder has hit back at one of the reports by an Australian media outlet who termed his talk to his team-mates as ‘bizarre’.

In the docu-series titled, ‘Ashes 2023 | Our Take,’ Stokes looked to bring his side back up mentally with a speech as all the momentum they had created in the game was being washed away by the rain in the fourth Test at the Old Trafford Cricket Ground in Manchester.

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The official handle of Fox Cricket was certainly not too impressed with what Stokes had to say and it was shown in their sarcastically written caption linking it to their story.

Stokes has never been one to take a blow without handing one out in return and he sure did hit back against the media outlet. He replied to the post by clarifying that it was when Australia were really down the trenches that rain came in for two days to destroy England’s chances of winning the Test and taking the series to the final game which England had gone on to win it.

“Said this to the team who had watched it rain for 2 days when we had our foot on your throats, just tried to cheer up the disappointment tbh, but anyways rent free and all that,” said the England captain.

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Stokes will now have more fuel to his fire as he will be expected to lead the England team to take on Australia in the next edition of the Ashes in 2025 which will be in Australia and Stokes’ side will hope to reclaim the urn and mark a historic first Ashes victory on away soil.