Alex Malcolm

Give us one more Stokesy.

And I just, I wonder like what the, what it's sapping from him as a person, you know, like, uh,

I mean, sorry, I think it's fairly fucking obvious what's happening to him.

I mean, he's so drained.

But at the same time, I suppose like he might feel responsibility because I look at the team they're wheeling out for the second, wheeling out, the team they're going to play in the second test.

We'll be wheeling our team out.

you know, there's, I think there's, there's five guys in five or six guys, seven guys, um, with less than 20 caps, um, in their side.

Um, the sort of route and the rest, uh, Duckett, Brook, I suppose, paid 40 and 30, but, uh, you know, so he might feel like he, he has a responsibility to, to still lead and stuff, but like,

Hey, this thing is fucking draining his battery and how much more has he got left to give?

Um, well, I suppose that the second and third test matches are on the heels of each other.

So you'd be surprised if he, if either Atkinson or, or Stokes plays in the third test, I suppose there's a longer gap between the Pakistan test matches.

So maybe some, some time there, but, um, yeah, I mean, it's, it's sort of, um,

I guess it has been for a little while, but then this incident happens, and I suppose McCullum and Key think it reflects poorly on them, and fundamentally it does.

The fact they had to introduce a curfew at all is a reflection on- Maybe an alcohol ban now.

Yeah, where the team has got to.

I mean, what's happened on the field is they've played India and Australia 20 times now under this regime, home and away both times.

They've won six games, six out of 20.

um but they make the estimation that this is still the best way forward okay that's fair enough and then this then this happens and the thing i think about it as well is like something maybe not this specific thing but something will happen again for as long as these three are in charge something will happen again

And I wonder with Stokes specifically, is that he has just given so much to so many people.

And the fact that he's the player, that it's like, we're just going to go with him.