{"id":753730,"date":"2026-06-22T22:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T22:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/753730\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T22:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T22:02:08","slug":"england-cricketers-stokes-atkinson-cleared-by-investigation-panel-over-nightclub-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/753730\/","title":{"rendered":"England cricketers Stokes, Atkinson cleared by investigation panel over nightclub incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 England cricket captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/ben-stokes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Stokes<\/a> and teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/gus-atkinson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gus Atkinson<\/a> were cleared Monday by the sport\u2019s independent oversight panel relating to a nightclub incident after the team\u2019s win against New Zealand this month.<\/p>\n<p>Stokes and Atkinson already were due to return for the team\u2019s third test match &#8211; after being left out of the second against New Zealand &#8211; starting Thursday after getting written warnings from the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).<\/p>\n<p>The independent Cricket Regulator said Monday \u201cno further action will be taken against either player.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stokes and Atkinson broke a midnight curfew after victory in the first test and were in a London nightclub when a team security official was reportedly struck by a rugby player from English club Saracens.<\/p>\n<p>The Cricket Regulator body, which monitors compliance with the game\u2019s regulations, said it investigated \u201cmultiple lines of inquiry to gather and assess evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving carefully reviewed all currently available information, the Cricket Regulator has determined that there is insufficient evidence to establish that any regulatory breach occurred,\u201d it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Fallout from the incident drew more scrutiny on the culture around the England cricket team after a losing Ashes tour of Australia that was tainted by reports of excessive drinking and being unprofessional.<\/p>\n<p>The test series against New Zealand is tied 1-1 before the decisive third game at Trent Bridge in Nottingham.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>                        <a name=\"pagebreak\"\/><\/p>\n<p>AP cricket: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/cricket<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 The Washington Times, LLC.\n                        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON \u2014 England cricket captain Ben Stokes and teammate Gus Atkinson were cleared Monday by the sport\u2019s independent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-753730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}