It is an utter disgrace that Joe Root is left to unpick the deeply ugly booze and banter culture of denial and victimhood that Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum have stitched into this England team: IAN HERBERT
IAN HERBERT: The figure of Ben Stokes, lurking on the fringes of English cricket’s latest scandal, said everything about the sense of victimhood we were asked to stomach amid his England exit.