England Test skipper Ben Stokes is looking forward to leading his side to their first Ashes series win Down Under since 2010/11.

If he is successful, he will become just the sixth England skipper to have achieved the feat after the Second World War.

England is set to lock horns with Australia on Friday in the series opener on Friday at the Optus Stadium in Perth.

Len Hutton, Ray Illingworth, Mike Brearley, Mike Gatting, and Andrew Strauss are the ones who have achieved that feat thus far.

“We all know that England’s record in Australia over the course of Ashes history isn’t the best. But we have got an opportunity here over the next two and a half months to write our own history. We have obviously come here with a goal, and that goal is to get on that plane in January, returning to Eng

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