What will it take to stop the England hangovers?

Yet again, the England men's cricket team is picking through the wreckage of a late-night misdemeanour.

The latest stain on the game's reputation is a result of pictures of fast bowler Brydon Carse in handcuffs and surrounded by police officers outside a nightspot in Derby. His Durham team-mate Matthew Potts is in the images, while former England captain Ben Stokes appears in the background.

If you're keeping score, we're now up to eight England players involved in incidents of this kind since Halloween last year.

Harry Brook was punched by a nightclub bouncer in Wellington, with Jacob Bethell and Josh Tongue present. Ben Duckett was filmed drunk in Noosa, then Stokes and Gus Atkinson were there when a member of England's security staff was struck in a London nightclub in June, breaching a curfew in the process.

To put it another way, there are 30 men currently on England central contracts. More than a quarter of them have been caught up in bother in the past 10 months. Of the four separate incidents, two have involved punches being thrown and another was a police matter.

In Carse's case, the time spent in handcuffs came days after new England Test captain Joe Root called on his players to be "really good role models, good human beings".

Root was speaking the day before England's first Test against Pakistan, for which Carse was part of the squad. The match was scheduled to still be ongoing when he found himself in the hands of the police.

It is understood that Carse was not arrested. Both the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and the Cricket Regulator will work to establish what happened. There are early suggestions he was denied entry back into a nightclub, or he had a drink poured over him.