Ian Botham has criticised dropped England captain Ben Stokes for breaking a team curfew, with the cricket great saying he does not see "how you justify what happened".

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Ian Botham has criticised dropped England captain Ben Stokes for breaking a team curfew, with the cricket great saying he does not see "how you justify what happened".

Ben Stokes was dropped for England's second Test against New Zealand alongside Gus Atkinson after the pair broke the team's curfew and were involved in an incident at a nightclub