England’s Ben Stokes and Alex Hales still on good terms after court claims

• Stokes’s lawyer had raised Hales’s role in Bristol brawl at trial
• England to assess all-rounder’s fitness before third India Test

Ben Stokes and Alex Hales face a protracted wait to learn if they face any cricketing sanctions but there is understood to be no ill-feeling between the pair after a potentially divisive end to the Bristol court case in which the former was cleared of affray.

Stokes’s counsel, Gordon Cole QC, had used his closing speech on Monday to suggest that possible kicks to the head of Ryan Ali from Hales during the early-hours fight on 25 September may have been the cause of the co-defendant’s fractured eye socket.

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