After a dominating 3-0 Test whitewash over Pakistan, Ben-Stokes-led England is aiming to continue their winning run and win back the all-important Ashes against Australia next year.
England finished their obligations for 2022 when they wrapped up their first Test series in Pakistan for 17 years cruising to victory in the third and final Test in Karachi on Tuesday.
It completed an impressive eight-month period since McCullum was appointed coach and Stokes took the reins from Joe Root and was promoted to Test captain, with the team’s results during that phase unrivaled. Everything McCullum and Stokes have touched in recent times has turned to gold.
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England lost just once while completing impressive Test series triumphs over New Zealand, South Africa, and Pakistan and even had time to win the postponed Test against India in Edgbaston during a dominant period of red-ball cricket.
While the ICC T20 World Cup title they won in Australia last month may have been their crowning moment of 2022, England’s Test form has been just as imperious. However, they are already out of contention for next year’s ICC World Test Championship prior to McCullum and Stokes’ burgeoning partnership.
But that may work in England’s favor when they attempt to win back the Ashes from Australia for the first time since 2015 when the two arch-rivals meet on English soil in the middle of next year.
“I don’t like looking too far ahead but I obviously have my eye on The Ashes in 2023,” Stokes told Sky Sports after completing the Test whitewash in Pakistan.
”We will continue to grow as a team, spend more time together, keep trying to have fun, play Test cricket with a smile on our faces and try to win as much as we can,” he added.
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