Sport is about bringing fit and talented young people together to make the best of them through developing, giving coaching, facilities, everything needed really, and then letting them prove they can do it. That then brings responsibility, you are representing your club. I dont like the question of whether there is a drinking culture in the English cricket team. In fact I hope there is. The issue is not about letting people go out for a beer, its about those people behaving like a. a grown up and b. a grown up who is representing his country. Its not hard is it. It seems this tour needs some leadership, from within that team and not the management. Where is the captain, or senior player, or outright bully, or committee judge, or senior pro, or team shagger, or all the other traditional people within a touring squad? Someone to tell them, look - have a pint. Have loads of pints. Shag her. Shag her and drink that, and whatever will happen. Then get home quietly. And tomorrow we all get on a bus and go training, and play.
Anyone get my point? Sportsmen tourists will I hope.
Where are the Dean Richards, Robert Jones, (Bryan Robson even), Alan Border's, David Boon's of our time?