'A belter of a bloke' - Stokes pays tribute to Robin Smith - video Dailymotion

Ben Stokes admits the news of England legend Robin Smith's death hit harder after his Ashes visit last week.

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00:00Ben, can we just first get your reaction to the news yesterday about Robin Smith, the proper England great?

00:07Yeah, a very sad day. I didn't know him overly well but I knew quite a lot of people who did know him very well.

00:15I played a lot of cricket with him and the same thing kept on coming up, which was he was an absolute belter of a bloke.

00:25News like that gets you and then it hits you a bit harder. Just last week he was there chatting with the Lions who were out here.

00:33He was at the game last week and talking to people and going into quite a lot of detail about his life and opening up quite a lot.

00:45It hits you a bit harder when you realise that it was only a week ago where he was doing those kind of things.