Sir James Anderson
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But it's the fact that after the winter...
Everything that's added up, you know, it's just not a great look.
And especially with it being the captain.
I was thinking earlier, like you put yourself in Ben Stokes' shoes after the winter that he's been through.
He was getting it from all angles in terms of the standard of the cricket and the off-field stuff as well.
So he's finally won a test match.
You know, I can imagine that you just want a release and like...
you know, just go out with it, go out with a mate or a couple of mates or whatever.
And just, just with the relief of it all having that, what is it?
Two weeks before the next test.
It's not like there's a game in three days.
So the fact is that there was an incident that's actually drawn attention to them being out after the curfew.
If that incident doesn't happen, then they could have been out till one o'clock and no one cares.
And then we just, you know, England 1-0 up going in with a full strength team into the next game.
But the situation we're in now is that, you know, it's just a bit of a mess, isn't it?
After the winter just draws unwanted attention again onto that