Robert Craddock

As in nothing else seemed to matter in the world for about an hour, did it?

It is.

And Gerard, I wish Australia owned that great song, It's Coming Home, that is the anthem for the England World Cup.

Because

If ever I've got a day where I'm feeling a bit down, I put that on my phone on my way to work, and it's a real pump-the-table song.

And I urge people to do the same.

If you have a day and you're struggling, Google this.

It's coming home.

And the old England World Cup anthem, it's full of, it just gets you going.

And I swear you'll be right for the day.

When I saw overnight that Ben Stokes is on the verge of being suspended from the England captaincy for a nightclub incident after their first test win over New Zealand, I got to say, I just, my head is just, as I speak to you, my head is still shaking.

Well, do you know what?

It's such a good point because the whole Brendan McCollum, Ben Stokes reign, yes, sure, it had Baz Ball and had aggression and had a sort of flamboyance, but it had a lack of accountability.

And, you know, the standards were sloppy.

Players got away with too much.

We had Harry Brook.

getting punched by a bouncer in New Zealand and that being kept secret for a few months.

We had Ben Duckett out on the streets of Noosa, you know, wandering around half shot.

We had, you know, all those sort of things.

So the midnight curfew comes in for this series.