ECB: Ben Stokes and Alex Hales will not be considered for selection for England international matches until further notice
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Sending an offender down under? Ashes 2017-18
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I like to console myself with the thought of Andrew Strauss's face of thunder when going down to see Stokes in the cells.
Still, at least we have some concrete evidence for my hypothetical 'who's the hardest' list for England Test sides. (At the bottom Cook, Broad, Ali, I think)
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He's being defended on social media (majority opinion seems pro-Stokes) but the video is surely damning? It's a sustained attack which he refuses to stop even though given a chance to back off several times. There's quite a long time gap between the bottle swing and the KO punch. He had plenty of time to think it over.
And now there's also a video of him mocking Katie Price's disabled son.
But I'd predict that this will be one of those where the media will have it both ways: Stokes is a violent yob versus PC gone mad, depending on which page you are reading.Last edited by Satchmo Distel; 28-09-2017, 19:41.
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Stokes shouldn't go after that. It will make no difference either way but his absence could be used an excuse. Brisbane and Perth definite Australian wins. Adelaide depends on toss because it is a day/night game. Melbourne and Sydney probably momentum results. I'd say 4-1 loss for England at best. Ballance, Malan and Vince won't last four overs against Starc/Patterson etc. Moeen struggles against short-ball. Cook also vulnerable to left-arm pace. Lyon streets away the best spinner in the series. I'd actually back him for most wickets in the series.
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Originally posted by longeared View PostI like the line that Strauss has referred the pair to the "Cricket Discipline Commission". What other discipline commissions does the ECB have?
OTOH maybe times have changed and cricket will follow public opinion, which I'm sure will want him back and portray him as some kind of lovable rogue, repeating the old Botham and Flintoff cycles.
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Memo to (or from) all NZ media: official description is no longer "Kiwi-born Stokes".
I haven't read all the acres of reporting and reckons on this, but I assumed Botham's 1980s suspension for smoking dope has been a popular point of comparison. I remember CMJ and Denis Compton (among many) being Outraged at his crime. Of course times and standards change, but it's hard to see how punching is more forgivable than puffing.
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I'd be astonished if he gets a custodial sentence, especially not a suspended one. To me it looks like a Category 3 level assault (no serious injury, no aggravating factors - apart from sustained level of assault) with medium culpability. That would put him solidly in the community order bracket, with no previous convictions and steady employment. Given Lavinia Woodward didn't go to jail, it's inconceivable to me that Stokes would.
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I think Lavinia Woodward's sentence was on the light side though within normal parameters, because she could afford a good barrister and had a good career ahead of her, both which also apply to Stokes. But yes, I was trying to say that it takes a lot to get jailed for a first offence.
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repeating the old Botham and Flintoff cycles
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I always enjoy the chorus of outrage when something like this happens. While I'm not defending Ben Stokes' actions- and I haven't watched the video- am I wrong in thinking that the current Australian vice-captain 'allegedly' assaulted one of the England players in a bar or night club during an Ashes tour a couple of years ago?
Of course, one perhaps doesn't expect any better of colonials...
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1974ddr, I don't see any orchestrated outrage here but I would advise anyone who shrugs this off to watch the video.
Warner back in 2013 threw a punch; Stokes seems to have thrown 15, some at a guy who was already down. Warner was banned for some Champions Trophy games and all warm-ups before the First Test. Stokes is looking at something worse, surely?
Certainly, in the context of societal violence generally, this is commonplace stuff, but if Stokes wants the exaggerated rewards of sporting celebrity, he has to accept that he will be held to a higher standard than Joe Public and get an exemplary suspension and loss of the Vice Captaincy, to deter future occurrences by him or other players.
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- Oct 2011
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- Cambridgeshire
- Ipswich (convert)
- Those chocolate-coated ring-shaped ones you get at Christmas
Lions squad announced
https://www.ecb.co.uk/news/487828
Ethan Bamber (Middlesex), Liam Banks (Warwickshire), Tom Banton (Somerset, wk), Harry Brook (Yorkshire), Jack Davies (Middlesex, wk), Adam Finch (Worcestershire), Luke Hollman (Middlesex), Will Jacks (Surrey), Tom Lammonby (Somerset), Felix Organ (Hampshire), Dillon Pennington (Worcestershire), Savin Perera (Middlesex), Jack Plom (Essex), Hamidullah Qadri (Derbyshire), Tom Scriven (Hampshire), Prem Sisodiya (Glamorgan), Fin Trenouth (Somerset), Roman Walker (Glamorgan).
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- Oct 2011
- 26997
- Cambridgeshire
- Ipswich (convert)
- Those chocolate-coated ring-shaped ones you get at Christmas
Ha, so it is. A rushed copy-and-paste job this morning.
Lions: Dom Bess (Somerset), Joe Clarke (Worcestershire), Paul Coughlin (Durham/Nottinghamshire), Alex Davies (Lancashire), Ben Duckett (Northamptonshire), George Garton (Sussex), Nick Gubbins (Middlesex), Tom Helm (Middlesex), Keaton Jennings (Durham/Lancashire), Dan Lawrence (Essex), Jack Leach (Somerset), Liam Livingstone (Lancashire), Saqib Mahmood (Lancashire), Jamie Porter (Essex), Amar Virdi (Surrey), Tom Westley (Essex), Mark Wood (Durham).
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