{"id":179095,"date":"2026-06-10T16:21:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T21:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=179095"},"modified":"2026-06-10T16:21:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T21:51:24","slug":"vaughan-stokes-curfew-breach-not-a-sackable-offence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=179095","title":{"rendered":"Vaughan: Stokes\u2019 curfew breach not a sackable offence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-71085485\">Michael Vaughan has backed Ben Stokes to retain the England captaincy despite being investigated for breaking the team\u2019s curfew.<\/p>\n<p>The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced it was looking into Stokes\u2019 involvement in a nightclub incident on Monday morning following England\u2019s win in the first Test against New Zealand at Lord\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>England team-mate Gus Atkinson and Saracens rugby player Totoa Auvaa were also involved.<\/p>\n<p>Media reports on Tuesday suggested Stokes may resign as Test skipper.<\/p>\n<p>The second Test against New Zealand at the Oval gets under way in a week\u2019s time.<\/p>\n<p>But former England captain Vaughan said Stokes had sufficient \u201ccredit in the bank\u201d to avoid being sacked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, Ben Stokes broke a curfew,\u201d Vaughan wrote in the Daily Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, he made a mistake. But is that a sacking offence as England\u2019s Test captain? I do not think so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStokes has a lot of credit in the bank for all he has done for England as captain and all-rounder. There is no way that those making the big decisions at the England and Wales Cricket Board have the same credit in the bank.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not see how you can tell Stokes he is not captain anymore just for going over the curfew by a couple of hours after a win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cA short suspension would be fine, but this is not a big enough incident over which to lose the captaincy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is the latest controversy concerning the England team after the tour of Australia where the side faced allegations of a drinking culture during a 4-1 Ashes series loss.<\/p>\n<p>A physical confrontation with Auvaa is understood to have led to a member of ECB security staff being struck.<\/p>\n<p>If Stokes is stripped of the captaincy, vice-captain Harry Brook &#8212; already the skipper of England\u2019s white-ball teams &#8212; could lead the hosts next week.<\/p>\n<p>Brook was fined and censured for late-night drinking and clashing with a nightclub bouncer before captaining England in a one-day international in Wellington in October &#8212; an incident that led to the midnight curfew.<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on Jun 10, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/michael-vaughan-ben-stokes-curfew-breach-england-captaincy\/article71085485.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Vaughan has backed Ben Stokes to retain the England captaincy despite being investigated for breaking the team\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2026-06-07T121740Z_1721872487_UP1EM670Y5EEI_RTRMADP_3_CRICKET-ENG-NZL.JPG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":187524,"url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=187524","url_meta":{"origin":179095,"position":0},"title":"No regrets, says Stokes after calling time on England career","author":"Ajay Kumar Verma","date":"June 29, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Ben Stokes insists he has no regrets about calling time on his 15-year England cricket career, saying: \u201cI\u2019m done.\u201d Stokes shocked the world of cricket on Sunday by announcing in the middle of the third test against New Zealand in Nottingham that it was his last international. 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