Perth : Senior batsman Alastair Cook said the world has changed for English cricket in the wake of the damaging Ben Stokes affair, and warned the team cannot afford any more “mistakes”.
The star all-rounder is currently banned from the international game while authorities probe his alleged involvement in a late-night fight outside a nightclub.
Cook, a former captain who will become the first Englishman to play 150 Tests when he appears against Australia in Thursday´s crucial third Ashes clash in Perth, admits his side has been slow to learn from the fall-out.
Dubbed a “behavioural cleanskin”, Cook senses England should have learnt their lesson months ago that standards would be intensely scrutinised in the wake of the Stokes scandal.
“It has been a very strange thing,” he told reporters in Perth late Tuesday.
“The world has obviously changed for the English cricket team from September. We have taken a couple of months to really realise that.
“These last two incidents have proved that. I´ve seen words written down, ´trivial misdemeanour at best´, but since the Stokes incident times have changed for the English cricket team.”
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