If Steve Smith, who oversaw team-wide coordinated cheating, can come back, play, and eventually even captain his country again, then I’m sure Ben Stokes, who broke curfew, can do the same.
The really beautiful thing about the squad is you have another lads lads ready to step up to take on the captaincy, the drinking and the debauchery.
You can kill the king, you can never kill the culture.
Four of our incumbent eleven have had high profile drinking incidents in the space of like eight months. Am I allowed to use the phrase “drinking culture” yet, or will all the Bob Clubbies get upset again?
Is cricket inaccessibly expensive? The cost for a father to take his son to one day Lord's:
Tickets 2x £140: £280
Saino's (strawbs, cocktail sausages etc): £25
2x lunch hamper: £110
2x Veuve Cliquot Jeroboam: £840
Carlton St hotel: £300
return train from Princes Risborough: £140
Mohammad Abbas has taken another 5fer in Test.
My favorite story about him is that while he was at Hampshire, He used to stay in a suite at Hilton which is inside Rose Bowl cricket ground in Southampton.
One day, Manchester City was scheduled to play against Southampton and Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola requested Hampshire to give him the suite where Abbas stayed. Hampshire refused his request.
Zack Polanski says it 'wasn't appropriate' for him to share a post on X, which appeared to suggest the response of the police when detaining the Golders Green attacker might have been heavy-handed.
Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander this morning criticised Polanski's sharing of the post as 'disgusting' - adding he 'is not fit to lead a political party'.