{"id":792747,"date":"2026-07-11T03:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/792747\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T03:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:52:11","slug":"cricket-news-2026-england-imposes-booze-ban-on-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/792747\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket news 2026: England imposes booze ban on players"},"content":{"rendered":"

England men\u2019s cricketers have been told they should not drink alcohol on the day before and after matches, in new guidelines to curb behavioural issues in the team.<\/p>\n

Following the 4-1 Ashes series loss in Australia in January, that was marred by allegations of excessive drinking, a midnight curfew was placed on the team.<\/p>\n

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Ben Stokes has endorsed Harry Brook as captain.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

However, the team experienced more controversy during their recent 2-1 series defeat at home to New Zealand.<\/p>\n

England captain Ben Stokes, who retired from international cricket after the series, and Gus Atkinson were both dropped from the second Test team for breaking the curfew at a London nightclub following England\u2019s win in the first Test.<\/p>\n

While there were claims some players did not think the curfew applied once a game was over, the Telegraph reports that incident has led to new guidelines being introduced, which include a midnight curfew on every day of a series at home or on tour.<\/p>\n

Additionally, no alcohol will be consumed on the day immediately before, during or the day immediately after a match.<\/p>\n

Other rules include players cannot appear intoxicated in public, or post on social media about any \u201calcohol-related material or activities\u201d.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, players must inform team management or security if they are out of the hotel after 10pm, including changes of plan.<\/p>\n

However, coach Brendan McCullum and director Rob Key can relax the rules at their discretion.<\/p>\n

This would allow players to celebrate a win or attend customary end-of-series drinks with the opposition at the end of an Ashes series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England men\u2019s cricketers have been told they should not drink alcohol on the day before and after matches,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-792747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792747","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=792747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}