Stokes blasts back at Hayden

BEN STOKES has got stuck into the Aussies — even though it seems his chances of playing in the Ashes are now even more remote. The all-rounder broke weeks of silence on Twitter to have a pop at ex-Australian opener Matthew Hayden, who called England’s squad ‘a rabble’. ‘I look down half of the list and I honestly don’t even know who half of these guys are,’ Hayden told Brisbane Heat’s podcast. That provoked Stokes (right), still waiting for the results of a police investigation into his Bristol street brawl. ‘Hayden says he doesn’t know

who half our squad is,’ Stokes tweeted. ‘Only 2 from the squad haven’t played at International level...he’s a cricket pundit yeah?’ Sadly for England that might be the limit of Stokes’s involvement as Avon and Somerset Police are ‘still no nearer to...