Ben Stokes was unable to complete an over on the fourth morning • Phil Walter/Getty Images 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.

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.

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