This piece on the Stokes thing is very good naming the hypocrisy of the situation.
Why not use the punishment my old cricket captain used when he discovered I'd been out late drinking before a match: I was made to open the bowling. Uphill.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
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Midnight bedtime was entirely a public relations exercise to reconnect with fans – the same fans the ECB invites to one long piss-up at Lord’s
