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,

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.

The all-rounder's 80 against New Zealand proves a welcome reset in a city where the Stokes family still reside