by Dr Cricket » Sun Oct 01, 2017 9:34 am
booth saying maybe Stoke situation wasn't a surprised since outside the western test nations, they all say england are the worse behaved team and in particular anderson and Stokes are horrible people.
"English cricket likes to tell itself that the Australians lead the way when it comes to sledging and on-field boorishness. But in recent years, Test cricket’s non-western teams have been appalled by some of the behaviour of England’s players, especially Stokes and Jimmy Anderson. Most of us have turned a blind eye."
"That never happened, and has now been overtaken in the saddest manner imaginable. But a far better plan was staring them in the face: simply ask Stokes to pipe down, and trust his natural ability to do the talking."
apprently during SA test, Stokes went drinking way late in the evening and the newspapers were persuaded not to report it to disrupt the team and the player.
"One or two did try to nip this all in the bud. When the Daily Mail were dissuaded from publishing a story in late July after Stokes had enjoyed a late night out in Manchester during the Test against South Africa, he received a rebuke from his manager Neil Fairbrother.
The gist of it was that Stokes risked, like Wayne Rooney, becoming a fixture on the back pages – for the wrong reasons. That warning fell on deaf ears. If and when Stokes gets another chance, he will pay more attention. The hope is that English cricket listens carefully too. "
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