I’m extremely disappointed with Ben Stokes for his alleged reaction to a taunt from the crowd in the fourth Test match against South Africa.
I appreciate that Stokes has experienced a lot in life and has some serious worries at the moment. If he did use personal characteristics in his response however then it hints at an ugly undercurrent to Stokes’ own character. He should be above responding to such things though of course I can understand frustration boiling over somewhere along the line. That said, the nature of the barb simply wasn’t good enough from our nation’s Sports Personality of the Year. He deserves to be reprimanded by the ICC. End of!
Calling the spectator four eyed was a little over the top and possibly stooping down but it seems as if Stokes is unnecessarily being attacked and the ECB has been quite about it because they do not want to lose the sponsorship of Specsavers.
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I appreciate your thoughts but I don’t see that the ECB are unnecessarily attacking him. It’s the ICC who have acted and rightly so. In the grand scheme of things he’s just been told off, that’s all.
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Didn’t see the news about his punishment when I posted my comments. ICC has done the right thing. I didn’t mean that the ECB attacked Stokes. The news articles that negatively covered the incident was significantly more.
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