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It was the latest in a string of off-field incidents during the past year, starting with Harry Brook being punched by a nightclub bouncer in Wellington, hours before leading England in a one-day international. A boozy Ashes tour followed, then Stokes and Gus Atkinson stayed out beyond the team’s midnight curfew after the first Test win over New Zealand, an incident which ultimately led to Stokes’ international retirement in June.

“If I’m being brutally honest I’m really hacked off,” Root said. “I’m really disappointed that, after last week’s performance, we’re sat here, and we’re talking about something that is not related to it at all.

"If I'm being brutally honest, I'm really hacked off, I'm really disappointed," Root said in the opening to a news conference.

"It's not the isolated incident itself, it's the fact that we continually keep making stupid mistakes away from the game and it's detracting from what we're doing on the field."

"But I don't think it's the isolated incident itself, it's the fact that we keep making stupid mistakes away from the game and it's detracting from what we're doing on the field." More to follow.

“It’s not the isolated incident itself, I think it is the fact that we continually keep making stupid mistakes away from the game, and it’s detracting from what we’re doing on the field,” Root said.

“Clearly we are not portraying ourselves how we want to and I think we have an opportunity to build a culture that is very strong, that we can be proud of, that is player-driven and of course that isn’t going to happen overnight.

"Clearly we're not portraying ourselves as we want to. We've got an opportunity to build a culture that is very strong and we can be proud of that's player-driven.