Ben Stokes aiming to join ‘lucky few’ England captains to win Ashes in Australia

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England cricket captain Ben Stokes says he has set his sights on joining the “lucky few” England captains to bring home the Ashes from Australian soil at a preview press conference in Perth.Stokes will lead his country out in Perth on Friday charged with bringing the urn back and overturning a long losing run Down Under.England have not won a match on their past three tours, losing 13 times and drawing twice, but believe they have the tools to follow in the footsteps of the side who won 3-1 in 2010-11.

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00:00Coming to Australia, playing against Australia, they're a seriously good team and everyone's

00:29including myself, including the team. All you guys know that the record of England over

00:35the history of Ash as a series in Australia isn't the best, but we've got an opportunity

00:41here over the next two and a half months to write our own history. We've obviously come

00:47here with the goal and that goal is to get on that plane mid-January, returning to England

00:52being Ash's winners, but we know it's going to be very, very tough, it's going to be hard

00:57because beating Australia in Australia is not an easy thing.

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