{"id":13867,"date":"2017-11-05T14:51:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T13:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/11\/05\/england-make-tidy-start-to-ashes-tour-but-shadow-of-ben-stokes-affair-lingers\/"},"modified":"2017-11-05T14:51:56","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T13:51:56","slug":"england-make-tidy-start-to-ashes-tour-but-shadow-of-ben-stokes-affair-lingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=13867","title":{"rendered":"England make tidy start to Ashes tour but shadow of Ben Stokes affair lingers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 England 349-6d drew with Western Australia XI 342-10\u2022 James Anderson finds rhythm with four-wicket haulEngland\u2019s Ashes tour is well under way as they began with a tidy two-day draw with a Western Australia XI, but Andrew Strauss is keen to swiftly receive clarity and closure on the Ben Stokes situation, which remains beyond their control.\u201cThe situation in a word is complicated,\u201d Strauss, the director of cricket, told BBC Radio 5 Live\u2019s Sportsweek. \u201cThere\u2019s two different potential disciplinary procedures he has to go through, one is the ECB\u2019s own internal one and the other is any potential police action. Until we know more from the police it\u2019s very hard for us to put a timeline on anything. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2017\/nov\/05\/england-tidy-start-shadow-ben-stokes-affair-looms\" target=\"_blank\">England make tidy start to Ashes tour but shadow of Ben Stokes affair lingers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 England 349-6d drew with Western Australia XI 342-10\u2022 James Anderson finds rhythm with four-wicket haulEngland\u2019s Ashes tour is well under way as they began with a tidy two-day draw with a Western Australia XI, but Andrew Strauss is keen to swiftly receive clarity and closure on the Ben Stokes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}