England are set to name their team for the second test against the Black Caps in the next day, and early indications suggest Stokes is highly unlikely to be included, having reportedly asked for space and time to consider his future.<\/p>\n
As Stokes reportedly considers his future, the team announcement could be delayed.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Ryan Bridge TODAY, Richardson, who played 38 tests for the Black Caps, said while it would be disappointing to see Stokes depart, he might benefit from time out of the spotlight.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really disappointing and no one really knows the true facts, but the fact is when you\u2019re England captain, when you\u2019re on tenterhooks as it is after what has happened over the last 12 months with that side, you might think it was a great test win, but maybe let\u2019s not go out and drink, or let\u2019s do it in private,\u201d Richardson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe doesn\u2019t deserve to go out this way, but clearly there\u2019s a problem there and maybe time out of the public eye is the best way to deal with it. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt would be a genuine shame to see the back of him. The character that I know, only from afar, is, you know, if England say we\u2019re going to sit you down, he\u2019s the type of character to go, \u2018Oh, bugger that, I\u2019ll retire then\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
The midnight curfew was first imposed for England\u2019s white-ball tour of Sri Lanka in January and the T20 World Cup that followed, both when Brook was captain.<\/p>\n
Stokes has had a history with alcohol during his time in the spotlight. In 2013, he was sent home from an England Lions tour for too much boozing, but his most infamous incident occurred in Bristol, 2017, that led to being charged with affray.<\/p>\n
He subsequently missed the Ashes tour of 2017\/18 before he was found not guilty of the charge following a trial at Bristol Crown Court in August 2018.<\/p>\n
Richardson said Stokes is the kind of guy that walks towards a teammate in a fight not walk away.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf there is a fracas, let\u2019s run and run quickly out the pub, not actually go to it,\u201d Richardson said. <\/p>\n
\u201cBen Stokes is the type of guy that if there\u2019s trouble, he\u2019s going to go towards it, he\u2019s not going to run away from it.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a competitive individual. I think it would be a real shame to lose him. He\u2019s a character, he\u2019s a great performer.\u201d<\/p>\n
The second test against the Black Caps takes place at The Oval in London, starting on June 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England are set to name their team for the second test against the Black Caps in the next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[351579,64,63,7822,15909,303,32605,740,282907,9674,250721,21694,5587,71949,4895,16371,1467,10320,611,351580,57062,29887,1793,49852,4215,110563,85,65815,231,36434],"class_list":["post-726097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-alcoholrelated","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-be","tag-ben","tag-black","tag-caps","tag-cricket","tag-englands","tag-following","tag-forced","tag-former","tag-from","tag-if","tag-incident","tag-into","tag-it","tag-latest","tag-mark","tag-offfield","tag-opener","tag-retired","tag-retirement","tag-richardson","tag-says","tag-shame","tag-sports","tag-stokes","tag-test","tag-would"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}