{"id":115740,"date":"2026-06-18T15:36:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/ben-stokes-returns-to-action-amid-nightclub-controversy-as-england-await-investigation-outcome\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T15:36:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:36:02","slug":"ben-stokes-returns-to-action-amid-nightclub-controversy-as-england-await-investigation-outcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/ben-stokes-returns-to-action-amid-nightclub-controversy-as-england-await-investigation-outcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Stokes returns to action amid nightclub controversy as England await investigation outcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England Test captain Ben Stokes is set to return to competitive cricket for Durham in their County Championship match against Northamptonshire. He was previously omitted from England&#8217;s second Test against New Zealand due to a nightclub incident. Both Stokes and Gus Atkinson have now been cleared for domestic play, with a decision on their international availability expected soon.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England Test captain Ben Stokes is set to return to competitive cricket for Durham in their County Championship match against Northamptonshire. He was previously omitted from England&#8217;s second Test against New Zealand due to a nightclub incident. Both Stokes and Gus Atkinson have now been cleared for domestic play, with a decision on their international&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/ben-stokes-returns-to-action-amid-nightclub-controversy-as-england-await-investigation-outcome\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ben Stokes returns to action amid nightclub controversy as England await investigation outcome<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":115741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}