You Can’t Put a Curfew on a Cricketer

Musings on England’s nightclub incident from an anonymous former Australian Test cricketer

Ben Stokes walked out of Lord’s on Sunday afternoon, having just led his team to victory over New Zealand by 115 runs, and said - out loud, into a microphone, with journalists present - that he was going to go and share ‘a proper beer with the boys’.

Twelve hours later, the ECB are clutching their pearls like a Rotary Club treasurer who’s just found a du…