Midnight bedtime was entirely a public relations exercise to reconnect with fans – the same fans the ECB invites to one long piss-up at Lord’s

Stokes, 35 last week, was named in a statement released at 6pm on Monday by the ECB as being alongside team-mate Gus Atkinson after the midnight curfew was broken.

England have had a curfew in place since the Ashes

Stokes and Gus Atkinson were dropped for the Oval Test after nightclub incident.