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\n Ben Duckett during the fourth Ashes Test in Melbourne in December. Pic: Reuters<\/p>\n
As well as turning his back on a \u00a3200,000 contract with the Delhi Capitals, he also apologised for past actions, particularly an incident when he was filmed drunk on a night out in Noosa, Australia, midway through the Ashes.<\/p>\n
After pleading guilty at Cannock Magistrates’ Court, he was fined \u00a3700, had four penalty points put on his licence, and ordered to pay \u00a3120 in costs and a \u00a3280 victim surcharge.<\/p>\n
The speeding incident happened just after 1.30pm on 24 August, hours before Duckett played a starring role in a Birmingham Phoenix Hundred win over the Manchester Originals at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n
Duckett admitted the speeding offence in September after being written to by Staffordshire Police.<\/p>\n
He then pleaded guilty through the Single Justice Procedure when the force decided to bring a criminal prosecution rather than impose an out-of-court fine, due to the high speed he had been driving.<\/p>\n
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\n Ben Duckett in action on day one of the first Ashes Test at Edgbaston in Birmingham in 2023. Pic: Reuters<\/p>\n
It is not Duckett’s first encounter with the criminal courts.<\/p>\n
As a rising star in 2015, he was prosecuted for drink-driving after crashing his car into a ditch in Northamptonshire, leading to a 12-month road ban.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Duckett was first selected for England’s Test side in 2016, but ran into controversy the following year when he reportedly poured a drink over bowler James Anderson’s head during a night out.<\/p>\n Read more on Sky News: He became a key player as an opener for England from 2022, adapting well to the team’s “Bazball” style of play before what he has described as a “ridiculously big dip” in his form over the last year.<\/p>\n Duckett’s speeding prosecution was dealt with behind closed doors last Friday without a formal court hearing.<\/p>\n The cricketer entered his guilty plea online and will now be written to with instructions for settling the \u00a31,100 court bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England cricket star Ben Duckett has been fined \u00a3700 after being caught speeding at 93mph in a 70mph…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-505663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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