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"Can't Take 3 Weeks Off And Expect Body To Be Ready": Ben Stokes Gears Up For IPL Despite Coronavirus Shutdown IPL 2020 has been delayed until April 15 in response to the pandemic and India entered a three-week lockdown in a bid to contain the spread on Wednesday. - Posted by Akash - Updated: March 26, 2020 08:29 AM IST Highlights - Ben Stokes says he is preparing to play in the Indian Premier League - However, he knows the tournament is unlikely to go ahead - IPL 2020 has been delayed until April 15 in response to the pandemic England all-rounder Ben Stokes says he is preparing to play in the Indian Premier League, even though he knows the tournament is unlikely to go ahead. Stokes has signed to play for Rajasthan Royals and is one of 13 English players set to feature in the IPL. But the Twenty20 tournament has already been delayed until April 15 in response to the pandemic and India entered a three-week lockdown in a bid to contain the spread on Wednesday. "At the moment my next competitive cricket is going to be in the IPL," Stokes told the BBC on Wednesday. "That hasn't changed yet so I have to think I will be playing on April 20." Last week, the England and Wales Cricket Board announced that the English county season would not start until at least the end of May, while England's tour of Sri Lanka was also postponed due to the virus. With IPL chiefs yet to call off or further delay their event, Stokes has to continue to keep himself in shape to play in the unlikely event he is asked to travel to India. "I have to get my head round that I am playing even though in the back of my mind I know I am probably not," he added. "I have to build up and get myself physically in a position that if it does happen I am good to go. "I cannot take three weeks off and expect the body to be ready for April 20 because it doesn't work like that. It might happen and if it does I don't want to be behind. "There will be a lot of advice given to us and if it was an option to go we will have to take the sensible one." Stokes said England's players were initially shocked when the two-Test Sri Lanka tour was cancelled. But the 28-year-old is well aware it was the right thing to do in the circumstances. Promoted "Everyone was shell-shocked for half an hour in the changing room. It was such a weird feeling because we had been there for 10-12 days. We were building up to the first Test and then we were going home," Stokes said. "But when you put everything together in terms of where the world was with the coronavirus, and what was being said on tour, it was the wrong place to be at that time and everyone's health is more important than anything else in the world."
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एजेन्सी,२२ असोज। । बेन स्टोक्स आईपीएलका लागि राजस्थान रोयल्सको टोलीमा सहभागी हुन निकै ढिला यूएई पुगे । त्यसअघि स्टोक्स आफ्नो जन्मराष्ट्र न्युजिल्यान्डमा थिए । न्युजिल्यान्डमा उनी आफ्ना बिरामी बुबासँग समय बिताइरहेका थिए । जो हाल क्यान्सरको पीडासँग लडिरहेका छन् । बेन स्टोक्सले पछिल्ला समय न्यूजिल्यान्डमा आफ्ना परिवारसँगै बिताएका थिए । आईपीएलमा राजस्थान रोयल्सका केही खेल पूरा भएपछि मात्र स्टोक्स टोलीमा सहभागी हुन यूएई पुगेका थिए । लामो समय परिवारसँगै बिताएका उनले प्रतियोगिता सुरु भएको केसी समयपछि यूएई पुग्नुको कारण बताएका छन् । उनले आफ्नो बुबाका कारण खेलमा पुनः फर्किएको प्रतिक्रिया दिएका छन् । डेली मिररमा लेखिएको रिपोर्टअनुसार स्टोक्सले यस्तो अवस्थामा आफ्नो बुबा-आमा र भाइलाई छोडेर हिँड्न निकै कठिन भएको बताएका छन् । उनले परिवारका रुपमा यो निकै नै कठिन समय भएकोसमेत बताए । यस समय परिवारका सदस्यले एक-अर्कालाई साथदिन आवश्यक भएको उनले बताए । “बाहिरबाट कसैले भनेर नभई आफ्नो आमा-बुबाको आशीर्वादले म आईपीएल खेल्न आएको हुँ । मेरो जिम्मेवारीलाई लिएर बुबा सचेत हुनुहुन्छ र उहाँले मलाई मेरो कामको कर्तव्य मान्दै पूरा गर्न भन्नुभयो,” स्टोक्सले भने, “धेरै विचार-विमर्शपछि यस फैसलामा कि मैले आफ्नो खेलमा पनि ध्यान केन्द्रित गर्नुपर्छ । त्यसपछि म आफ्नो श्रीमती क्लैर र बच्चा भएको ठाउँमा फर्किएँ ।” स्टोक्सका क्यान्सर रोगबाट पीडित बुबाको न्युजिल्यान्डमा उपचार भइरहेको छ । बेन स्टोक्स आफ्नो बुबाको स्वास्थ्य समस्या थाहा हुनेबित्तिकै इङल्यान्ड र पाकिस्तानबीचको सिरिज छाड्दै न्युजिल्यान्ड पुगेका थिए ।