The two had an altercation with Totoa Auvaa, the former Samoa A and Samoa Under-20 captain, who stands 6ft 5in (1.95m) tall. Before the fight, Stokes and Atkinson were reported to have breached team curfew after going out at night to a club. The incident causes serious tensions right ahead of the 2nd Test match at the Oval.
"The England and Wales Cricket Board has to make an example of Ben Stokes and slap him with a suspension after he was caught breaking the team’s curfew. You cannot have the captain blatantly breaking the rules and not do anything about it just because he is so important to the team," Boycott wrote in his column for The Telegraph.
Brendon McCullum and Key should have been sacked- Geoffrey Boycott
"If Rob Key, the England director of cricket, or Richard Gould, the ECB chief executive, are not up to the task of disciplining Stokes then they should not be in a job. I said before that Brendon McCullum and Key should have been sacked."
Ben Stokes set to be punished by the ECB?
Boycott also stated that Stokes should be punished, which would send a clear message throughout English cricket that breaching the rules can seriously affect one's career. The former also emphasized maintaining leadership and discipline inside the dressing room.
"But that does not detract from the fact that Stokes as captain should be setting the tone. England cannot beat Australia next summer without discipline. And discipline applies off the field as well as on it. We don’t want a paltry fine. They earn so much money now that a few thousand quid means nothing to them. It is a suspension we need to see," he wrote.
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