Stokes is Back! Broad on 2 Weeks of 'Chaos' That Cost England a Test Match

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And talking about the cricket, New Zealand beat England today by 253 runs at the Oval.

But the big news, and a huge positive for England, is Ben Stokes will be back in the squad for Trent Bridge.

Yeah, he's back, and that was expected the last couple of days.

The sort of news had calmed down and, and warmed a, a little bit towards, uh, being a positive.

He went back and played for Durham, um, so sort of calmed all that retirement talk that was swarming the papers the first couple of weeks.

O- officially ECB have come out.

Ben Stokes, Gus Atkinson recalled to the England squad, uh, after receiving a written warning following a breach of team protocols.

There's no mention of a curfew there, but just team protocols.

ECB investigation found neither player was responsible for any violent conduct with Atkinson described as a victim in an unprovoked incident.

So all to do about nothing.

Stokes acts and miss a game.

He's back as skipper.

Feels like a lot of hullabaloo for let's just crack on.

Yeah, absolutely.

It's been two weeks since the end of the Lord's test.

What have you made of the whole situation, I guess, finally? I mean, now we're back to sort of normal service resumed ahead of the Trent Bridge with Ben Stokes back, and, uh, England obviously 1-0.

It's a huge game.

Chaos, shambles, uh, costing them the test match, uh, for what? Not overly sure.

Uh, and ready to crack on and move on.

I th- I think Baz will have to do the press on Tuesday.

Ben Stokes, the captain, will do the press on Wednesday, so I'm sure there'll be a couple of questions, et cetera, all, all based around those two days.

And then, uh, I think as soon as the toss of the coin goes up at Trent Bridge on Thursday, that w- the...

I'm hoping it will never be mentioned ever again.

Um, I must admit there's a few lines w- when, uh, New Zealand won today at, at lunchtime.