Jonathan Agnew

The two do go together.

Curfews are just silly.

A curfew just demonstrates that you don't trust the players.

The players should not have a curfew imposed because the players should know themselves that they shouldn't need a curfew imposed.

They should be in bed by midnight the day before a game.

You don't need to be told to do that.

You're not little schoolboys.

And that's where I think this whole thing has just become far too loose.

The stuff about Noosa we've talked about to a blue in the face over in Australia.

I found a handful of people, that's all, who felt that going to Noosa was a good idea.

I felt it was a wretched idea from the start.

I felt it was always going to be a disaster.

And there's Harry Brooks saying, well, we had this break off between the two tests, so we went to Noosa.

Well, all tours have breaks, but cricket tours play cricket matches in the breaks.

These people played 18 days of cricket, if you take out the nonsense at Lilac Hill, which clearly was a waste of time.

18 days of cricket in, what, 70 days?

I mean, is that really taxing?

We've talked about the need for practice.

Excuse me.

We've talked about the need for getting players who are not in the team