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Ben Duckett was caught speeding at 93mph as he drove along the A50

England cricketer Ben Duckett has been fined after he admitted speeding at 93mph hours before a match in The Hundred.

The 31-year-old Nottinghamshire batter triggered a police speed gun as he broke a 70mph speed limit in his Land Rover Defender on the A50, near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, at about 13:30 BST on 24 August.

Later that day he played in Birmingham Phoenix’s victory over the Manchester Originals at Old Trafford.

Duckett pleaded guilty to the offence and magistrate Michelle Foster gave him a £700 fine, four penalty points on his licence, ordered him to pay £120 in costs and a £280 victim surcharge at Cannock Magistrates’ Court on Friday.

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England and Nottinghamshire’s Ben Duckett pleaded guilty to the offence

Duckett admitted the speeding offence in September after being written to by Staffordshire Police.

He then pleaded guilty through the Single Justice Procedure when the force decided to bring a criminal prosecution rather than impose an out-of-court fine, due to the high speed he had been driving.

It comes after Duckett recently withdrew from the Indian Premier League in an attempt to hold on to his place in the England side and will instead play in the early rounds of the County Championship for Nottinghamshire.

The left-handed batter struggled for form towards the end of last summer and hit just one half-century in 16 innings across all formats this winter.

In the Ashes he made 202 runs in 10 Test innings at 20.20 with a top score of 42.

The cricketer entered his guilty plea online and will now be written to with instructions for settling the £1,100 court bill.

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