Ben Stokes has been backed to make a huge success of his time as England captain after turning his life around like Ricky Ponting.
While there has been many a comparison between Stokes and previous England captaining all rounders Sir Ian Botham and Andrew Flintoff, it is an Aussie great who is providing the clues for former England player and coach David Lloyd.
More affectionately known as 'Bumble', Lloyd has seen everything there is to see in the game as player, coach, umpire and commentator over more than 50 years.
And he reckons Stokes' brush with the law and subsequent heroics on the field mirror those of Ponting who was knocked unconscious in a Sydney bar fight as a 24-year-old, faced up to his demons and went on to become a dead-set
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