It’s increasingly hard to say what’s going on behind those shades. The man’s the Anna Wintour of the wicket. That eyewear makes it impossible to know what he’s thinking. It’s been nine days since Ben Stokes was caught breaking the England team curfew at a nightclub on the Kings Road, and still no one really knows what’s going on, or exactly what’s gone wrong. The Cricket Regulator is investigating, but it is slower than molasses in January. There doesn’t seem to be a good reason why the ECB’s own report is dragging on so long. The one clear point is that neither McCullum, nor his boss, Rob Key, wanted to offer Stokes their backing as captain.
