Is staying sober just not cricket? | Andy Bull

Joe Root denied that England players had a ‘drinking culture’ – during the hours of play at least, his team are among the minority of sober people inside a groundTipsy, intoxicated, inebriated, temulent, fuddled, cut, fresh, merry, tight, plastered, sloshed, smashed, raddled, crapulous, bibulous, ebrious, potulent, potvaliant, pissed. The English seem to have as many synonyms for drunk as the Eskimos do for snow. Spend enough time at the cricket, and you’ll likely spot ea