{"id":7588,"date":"2026-08-04T09:23:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T09:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=7588"},"modified":"2026-08-04T09:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T09:23:15","slug":"cricket-has-an-alcohol-culture-not-just-england-ben-stokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=7588","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Cricket has an alcohol culture, not just England&#8217;: Ben Stokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Stokes believes cricket&#8217;s drinking culture is deeply embedded across all levels.  He stated this culture has not changed despite increased professionalism in the sport.  This discussion follows a recent disciplinary issue involving team curfew breaches.  Stokes and teammate Gus Atkinson faced suspension for a late-night outing.  The ECB subsequently introduced stricter alcohol guidelines for England players.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Stokes believes cricket&#8217;s drinking culture is deeply embedded across all levels. He stated this culture has not changed despite increased professionalism in the sport. This discussion follows a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=7588\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}