Ben Stokes and Alex Hales set to face CDC, charged with bringing the game into disrepute

The England pair have been hit with two counts of by the ECB and their cases will be heard at private sessions with a result to be announced on Friday afternoon

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Ben Stokes and Alex Hales face charges of bringing the game into disrepute when they attend Cricket Discipline Commission hearings in London, starting on Wednesday.

The England pair have been hit with two counts by the ECB and their cases will be heard at private sessions, with a result expected to be announced on Friday afternoon.

Both players are expected to plead not guilty to the charges, which relate in part to the incident outside a Bristol nightclub in September 2017 which ended with Stokes in custody. He was later acquitted of affray by a jury at Bristol Crown Court. Hales was not charged by police over the matter.

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Ben Stokes faces charges of bringing the game into disrepute

The Times reports that at least one of the charges in question, however, relates not to the fight outside Mbargo but to posts made on social media.

The CDC - an independent but ECB-funded body - are being asked whether the two men breached the ECB directive which says: "No participant may conduct themself in a manner or do any act or omission at any time which may be prejudicial to the interests of cricket or which may bring the ECB, the game of cricket or any cricketer or group of cricketers into disrepute".

No media will be permitted to be present at the hearings, which will be chaired by lawyer and former Derbyshire batsman Tim O'Gorman.

A long-term suspension could be laid down by the CDC panel in the most extreme outcome.

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