WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) Two New Zealand radio personalities have been suspended for broadcasting a conversation with the mother of England cricketer Ben Stokes when she believed they were off air.
On Tuesday, Radio Hauraki's Jeremy Wells and Matt Heath were discussing the final over in the World Twenty20 final in India where New Zealand-born Stokes was hit for four consecutive sixes by Carlos Brathwaite to give the West Indies an unlikely four-wicket victory.
When Deborah Stokes, Stokes' mother, was made aware of their discussion, she called the radio station to complain, saying they ''bagged'' her son. She asked to talk to someone off air.
Local media reported that Heath twice told Stokes she was off air, but continued the conversation despite realizing she was the mother of the English allrounder.
