Burn it, burn it all down, Ben

Ben Stokes retires until next year's Ashes. Who will look take the reins and lead England out now? New Zealand looked pretty good too and we got to learn a handful of their players names.  In other news, Ireland hand India a 2-0 series defeat in Belfast and Australia continue to charge on in the Women's World Cup.  0:00 Intro 4:00 What’s Getting You Hot? 6:00 Ben Stokes retires 24:20 Will Brendan McCullum survive this? 31:00 Who is Englands next captain? 37:50 New Zealand 51:30 NordVPN 52:51 Women’s World Cup 59:57 Ireland defeat India 1:10:40 AskTGC 🌎Get Exclusive NordVPN deal here ↣ https://nordvpn.com/tgc  It’s risk- free with Nord’s 30-day money back guarantee! 👍 To enjoy an extra hour of The Grade Cricketer every week and get access to the entire TGCRaw back catalogue (including hundreds of hours of #AskTGC Fridays), exclusive chat and more, sign up at patreon.com/gradecricketer or via the Patreon app.  Or, if you're an Apple Podcasts listener just tap one of the locked episodes and subscribe from there or use this link: http://apple.co/tgc You can follow The Grade Cricketer on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter: https://www.facebook.com/gradecricketer​ https://www.instagram.com/thegradecricketer https://tiktok.com/@thegradecricketer https://twitter.com/gradecricketer​ The Grade Cricketer hosts are Ian Higgins and Sam Perry. You can follow them on Instagram and X: Ian Higgins: https://www.instagram.com/higgins_ian/ ​https://x.com/1an_Higgins​ Sam Perry: https://www.instagram.com/sj_perry/​ https://x.com/sjjperry