Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson are under ECB investigation after breaching a midnight curfew and becoming involved in a nightclub altercation in Chelsea. Reports claim a Saracens academy rugby player threw a punch at Atkinson but hit an ECB security guard, who needed stitches.

ECB sources insist the cricketers “were not the aggressors.” Stokes’s captaincy is now under scrutiny.