Ben Stokes Must Survive The Ashes Series To Give England A Chance
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PERTH, AUSTRALIA – NOVEMBER 12: England captain Ben Stokes speaks to the media ahead of an England Ashes squad training session at Lilac Hill Park on November 12, 2025 in Perth, Australia. (Photo by Gareth Copley/Getty Images) Getty Images The 2025 remake of The Running Man carries a good omen for English cricket enthusiasts with a left field take on how their country can win the Ashes. Paul Michael Glaser’s original version came out in the same year that Mike Gatting’s tourists claimed the 1986-87 urn in Australia. Arnold Schwarzenegger portrayed a man called Ben, a character who survived multiple elimination attempts, eventually turning the tables on the propaganda and the hunters. Step forward, England’s Marvel lead man, Ben Stokes. Stokes has been called superhuman by some of his colleagues, and his deeds have all the makings of a movie should he pull off the greatest heist of all. The all-rounder is England’s rebuilt six-million-dollar man, which makes him an enemy of the state in the Australia’s dystopian world. Bazball is a dirty word down under in certain Antipodean circles, a cult that needs scything down. If push comes to shove, Stokes will have to survive for up to 25 of the most intense days of Test match cricket to get England over the line. That’s five less than Ben Richards, aka Glen Powell, in Edgar Wright’s remake. Early optimism at the Optus Stadium in Perth for the first round of the hunger games is built around the England captain’s ability to hang tough and run in as if his life depended on it. True to form, the less polite members of the Australian media have been zeroing in on England’s cricket captain as if he were a dead man already. “Kiwi-born Ben Stokes, the King of England’s self-proclaimed re-invention…
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