Better perhaps four months late than never, Ben Stokes has finally joined England’s winter tour and yesterday took part in his first training session in Hamilton. The ECB’s handling of his case — he was suspended before he was charged over the nightclub incident in Bristol, then free to play once he was charged with affray — leaves questions hanging over whether he should be with the team at all, but he is and at some stage will play. The team management indicated that it didn’t intend to pick him for the rest of the Trans-Tasman Twenty20 tri-series — the group stage concludes today — or rush him into the ODIs against New Zealand, but he is expected to play some part in the five-match series which…

Source: The Times February 18, 2018 00:06 UTC