The widespread farrago after Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson broke a midnight curfew is at risk of turning the England cricket captaincy into an inconceivable job.
Pilloried for staff efficiency when it goes flawed, and now demonised for celebrating with vigour when it goes proper, Stokes can be proper to query whether or not there’s any upside to a task which has lengthy been one of the vital troublesome in British sport.
There was a whiff of hypocrisy within the overreaction from ECB administration, cricket supporters and the media, however that’s nothing new.
When Douglas Jardine confirmed a ruthless streak in…
