England’s win at Lord’s on Sunday.<\/a><\/p>\nIt is the latest controversy to hit the England team following an Ashes tour dogged with allegations of a drinking culture.<\/p>\n
Before the Ashes, white-ball captain Harry Brook was punched by a nightclub bouncer in Wellington on the eve of a one-day international against New Zealand.<\/p>\n
As a result, England imposed a midnight curfew on all players and staff.<\/p>\n
It is understood the curfew was still in place despite the first Test being over, and the investigation relates to more than a breach of the curfew.<\/p>\n
“The ECB is currently investigating a breach of team protocols following the conclusion of the first men’s Test against New Zealand,” said the statement.<\/p>\n
“Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson were present at a nightclub in the early hours of Monday morning when an incident took place.<\/p>\n
“We are currently seeking further information, and an announcement regarding the squad for the second Test will be made in due course.<\/p>\n
“The Cricket Regulator has been informed and we will provide a further update when possible.”<\/p>\n
England were criticised for their off-field conduct during the 4-1 defeat in Australia, particularly a boozy mid-series holiday to the coastal town of Noosa.<\/p>\n
In the aftermath of the trip to Noosa, a video of Ben Duckett was posted on social media, with the opener appearing to be intoxicated.<\/p>\n
Director of cricket Rob Key investigated the time in Noosa, but denied the team had a drinking culture.<\/p>\n
At the end of the Ashes series in January, details of the incident involving Brook in October were revealed.<\/p>\n
Brook initially claimed to have been alone at the nightclub in Wellington, only for it to emerge that he was alongside team-mates Jacob Bethell and Josh Tongue.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The England and Wales Cricket Board is investigating an incident in a nightclub involving captain Ben Stokes and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-489390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}