The Times was reporting yesterday that it wasn't an argument between Duckett and Anderson - supposedly plenty of them were pouring drinks over each other (have drinking games changed recently or did this one just pass me by when I was a student, wtf?) but Duckett was the only one reported by the security to Flower, and has been stitched right up.
Various pundits have raised the valid point that if you really have to have a curfew, letting them off for a night is a terrible idea; 'here you go lads, this is the only night you can get pissed for the next 6 weeks'. Management would have been better off declaring that there's no need for a curfew, the players are all responsible adults and are aware that misbehaving late at night is not what's expected of an England cricketer, etc. Then get the players in a room and tell them you're backing them and want to trust them, but the next one who ends up in the papers as a result of late night activities will be on the next plane home.
Frankly the worst part of this whole thing is the extra Michael Vaughan exposure. Who'd have thought that the two captains of England's biggest test successes this century would end up doing so much to irritate cricket fans.
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