{"id":1144904,"date":"2026-08-12T19:44:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T19:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1144904\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T19:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T19:44:18","slug":"england-removes-midnight-curfew-on-mens-cricket-team-under-new-captain-joe-root","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1144904\/","title":{"rendered":"England removes midnight curfew on men’s cricket team under new captain Joe Root"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON (AP) \u2014 The midnight curfew imposed on the England men\u2019s cricket team has been scrapped under newly appointed captain Joe Root<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The restriction was put in place by England managing director Rob Key after controversial late-night incidents on the winter tours of New Zealand and Australia.<\/p>\n

Former test captain Ben Stokes<\/a> was out past the curfew following a match against New Zealand in June, leading to his temporary suspension and then sudden retirement<\/a> from test cricket \u2014 a chain of events that has sparked the return of Root for a second spell as skipper.<\/p>\n

The latest new era for English cricket begins next week with a three-match test series against Pakistan, and Root told the Sky Sports Cricket Podcast: \u201cThere\u2019s not going to be a curfew.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think this needs to be a big deal, to be honest,\u201d he said. \u201cMy view on curfews is I don\u2019t think they work, and if you want guys to take responsibility on the field they\u2019ve got to be able to feel they can be grown adults off it and make good strong decisions off it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s for us as a team to manage well, and self-police well, for me and Flem (Stephen Fleming) to manage well in many ways. But ultimately you\u2019re grown adults, you know what it takes to play for England, you know what your responsibilities are off the field and we need to make sure we don\u2019t find ourselves with any little situations off the field.\u201d<\/p>\n

Root wants the team to \u201ccreate a good strong culture when you know when the right time is to celebrate and enjoy a win or to have a sensible beer or whatever, but remember you\u2019re playing for England.\u201d<\/p>\n

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AP cricket: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/cricket<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 The midnight curfew imposed on the England men\u2019s cricket team has been scrapped under newly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1144905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5008],"tags":[186,43331,748,1406,393,4884,66284,704,199005,79,294574,217043,16,15],"class_list":["post-1144904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-england","tag-australia","tag-ben-stokes","tag-britain","tag-cricket","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-joe-root","tag-new-zealand","tag-rob-key","tag-sports","tag-sports-europe","tag-stephen-fleming","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117084256155991086","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1144905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}