Stokes 'disappointed' to miss fifth Test but says 'the risk was too high'

Ben Stokes insists his latest injury setback won't affect his inclusion in the Ashes series in Australia.

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00:00Yeah, obviously disappointed to not be able to finish the series.

00:05Yeah, I've got a decent tear of one of the muscles that I can't pronounce

00:08because I don't know how to say it.

00:12But yeah, it was obviously took as long as we could to make that decision around that.

00:19Obviously a bit of emotion going into this kind of stuff when you find out what you've done.

00:25I came down here this morning to give myself every chance of seeing

00:29just to play as a batter, bowling was ruled out as soon as we got the scan results.

00:35But yeah, I think you need sort of that time to start rehabbing now

00:41and obviously focus on what we've got coming up in the winter.

00:44So yeah, obviously very disappointed, but just almost needed a bit more time

00:49than normally would give to these kind of things to make a decision

00:53and helps that we've got a really good strong squad to be able to select from

00:56to put a team out there that we think can get us a win this week.

00:59How long do you think you'll be out?

01:02Once the series was done, I was feet up anyway.

01:05So yeah, it doesn't really make too much difference to what I've got

01:10from the end of the series up until the winter anyway.