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Derek Pringle: If Ben Stokes falls, English cricket will never live it down

Derek Pringle argues the furore over Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson’s curfew breach risks making the England captaincy an impossible job.
Ben Stokes is said to be considering his England future

The widespread farrago after Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson broke a midnight curfew is in danger of turning the England cricket captaincy into an impossible job.
Pilloried for team performance when it goes wrong, and now demonised for celebrating with vigour when it goes right, Stokes would be right to question whether there is any upside to a role which has long been one of the most difficult in British sport.

There has been a whiff of hypocrisy in the overreaction from ECB management, cricket supporters and the media, but that is nothing new.
When Douglas Jardine showed a ruthless streak in...

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