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Ben Stokes charged with bringing game into disrepute: ECB
LONDON, Sept 18, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Ben Stokes and Alex Hales have been
charged with bringing the game into disrepute by the England and Wales
Cricket Board following a late-night altercation last year.
The independent Cricket Discipline Commission was tasked with leading an
internal disciplinary into last September’s incident after Stokes was found
not guilty of affray following a trial last month.
The England pair will have to answer to two counts of breaching ECB
Directive 3.3, which states: “No participant may conduct themself in a manner
or do any act or omission at any time which may be prejudicial to the
interests of cricket or which may bring the ECB, the game of cricket or any
cricketer or group of cricketers into disrepute.”
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