Ben Stokes suffered an injury scare on day four of the first Test against New Zealand after aborting a spell with the ball midway through his fifth over. England's Test captain opened the bowling with himself on Sunday in Christchurch,

In Christchurch, the city of his birth, England captain Ben Stokes looks reborn as a a batter and a leader, says Stephan Shemilt.

It later emerged that at the end of the second Test in Pakistan, Stokes had learnt that his family home had been robbed while his wife and two children slept. His wife Claire implored him to stay in Pakistan, but you could not blame him for carrying a clouded mind. Barely any of Stokes’s team-mates knew what was going on.

English test captain Ben Stokes is fit for the second test against New Zealand after suffering from an injury during the first match of the series.Stokes said after the match, “I've not spent that much time out in the middle for a long