Cricket – England v Sri Lanka, Third Test – Colombo, Sri Lanka – November 24, 2018. England’s Ben Stokes celebrates after taking the wicket of Sri Lanka’s Angelo Mathews (not pictured). REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte
LONDON (Reuters) – Cricketers Ben Stokes and Alex Hales were fined on Friday for their involvement in a nightclub altercation but were cleared to play for England after match bans were either suspended or declared served.
All-rounder Stokes and batsman Hales had appeared before a disciplinary hearing after the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) charged the pair with bringing the game into disrepute following the September 2017 incident in Bristol.
Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Angus MacSwan
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