STOKES FINED BUT CLEARED TO PLAY FOR ENGLAND
England cricketers Ben Stokes and Alex Hales have been handed backdated bans following their involvement in an incident outside a Bristol nightclub in September 2017. Stokes was given an eight-match ban but has already served all of those, while the remaining four matches of Hales’ six-match white-ball ban are suspended for 12 months. All-rounder Stokes has also been fined £30,000, with Hales given a £17,500 penalty, £10,000 of which is suspended.