The England all-rounder’s six fours and seven sixes helped his team to matchwinning 217-run total in their T20 Super Smash match against Otago in Christchurch.

Stokes came in in the third over at No.4 and fell in the final over just shy of a century, before taking 1-17 as Canterbury won the game by 134 runs.

It is Stokes’s first meaningful score since joining up with the New Zealand side.

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He is provisionally included in England’s squad for the ODI and T20 series in Australia subject to any legal proceedings related to September’s incident in Bristol.