England Cricket 2026

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They just don't learn. Depending on the incident, involving a Saracen academy rugby player, this could well be Stokes last season. Certainly as captain anyway. 

cantersaddick

I can see a world where you go out celebrating a win and make some bad decisions and end up staying past curfew. Whatever’s happened here is clearly bigger than that but let's ignore that for now. I think it shows the culture around drinking in this team or maybe even cricket more widely is far behind elite sports. I'm lots of other sports those at the elite level won't drink full stop during the season and many will limit themselves to a drink or two during the season. The fact that this has happened enough times in the middle of series at the elite international level shows that they simply aren't as serious about fitness and recovery as other sports. Or maybe it's just this team and others are better?

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cantersaddick said:

I can see a world where you go out celebrating a win and make some bad decisions and end up staying past curfew. Whatever’s happened here is clearly bigger than that but let's ignore that for now. I think it shows the culture around drinking in this team or maybe even cricket more widely is far behind elite sports. I'm lots of other sports those at the elite level won't drink full stop during the season and many will limit themselves to a drink or two during the season. The fact that this has happened enough times in the middle of series at the elite international level shows that they simply aren't as serious about fitness and recovery as other sports. Or maybe it's just this team and others are better?

I think Rob Key wasn't being totally honest when previously interviewed on Sky about the Ashes in saying that only one or two had a problem and that it wasn't cultural. Root, Bairstow, Brook, Duckett, Stokes, Atkinson and Bethell have all been investigated. Those are just the ones that have been caught because of those incidents.  

Notts_Addick

fenaddick said:

Multiple places reporting the nightclub incident involves players from Saracens and Cricinfo reporting that Stokes in considering resigning his captaincy

Be a nightmare for the ECB if this does end up with Stokes dropping the captaincy. The only option in this current squad is Brook, a very good player although I think the captaincy is slightly to soon for him. Not sure the ECB will have much choice though at the moment, no other candidates really stand out.

cantersaddick

Any rumours circulating on what the actual incident was? Times like this I (ever so slightly) regret deleting twitter

Gravesend_Addick

I imagine he'll stand down as captain.

The trouble is, the list of potential replacements is very uninspiring