2 hours ago Ben Stokes has apologised to his team-mates earlier his instrumentality arsenic England skipper for the 3rd Test against New Zealand astatine Trent Bridge.
Stokes and gait bowler Gus Atkinson were made unavailable for the 2nd Test, which ended successful a 253-run defeat, pending an probe into a breach of the team's midnight curfew and an incidental successful a London nightclub pursuing England's triumph successful the bid opener.
Both players person been recalled to the XI for the 3rd Test, which starts connected Thursday, aft being recovered blameless of "violent conduct" by the Cricket Regulator.
A disciplinary proceeding by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), however, recovered they had "breached contractual obligations" and person been issued with a written warning.
Joe Root captained the broadside successful Stokes' absence, with Sonny Baker, Jordan Cox, and James Rew making their debuts successful a much-changed side.
"That was 1 of the archetypal things I had to bash arsenic a captain," Stokes said, erstwhile asked if helium had apologised to his team-mates.
"You look astatine a concern and it affects much than conscionable myself. It affected Joe, it affected the squad, it affects the radical extracurricular the playing environment.
"It nary uncertainty had an effect connected the lads who were making their debut. That should person been each astir them but unluckily a concern retired of their power took precedence implicit their large time of making their debut for England successful Test cricket.
"It would beryllium anserine and naive for maine not to admit that and code that. And it's thing that you bash person to bash arsenic idiosyncratic who's got the work of being a person wrong a group.
"It's each good and good everything being good and dandy erstwhile it's going well, but you request to instrumentality work for things arsenic well. If that's you that needs to instrumentality that responsibility, you request to beryllium large capable and antheral capable to beryllium capable to instrumentality that upon your shoulders, look everyone successful the eye, and apologise however you request to apologise. That's what I did."
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