Ben Stokes will NOT face Sussex in their Vitality Blast quarter-final on Friday.
The Durham and England star has been made unavailable by the ECB for the last eight T20 showdown at the Riverside.
Stokes has a niggle at the back of his knee but will be fit for the fourth Test against India.
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