India, July 12 -- The England men's cricket team coach, Brendon McCullum, has overturned a crackdown by the ECB on alcohol consumption in the dressing room to allow the squad to celebrate their crushing 4-0 series sweep over India at Southampton. A comprehensive 56-run victory to seal the triumph confirmed the home team's ascent to the No. 1 ranking in the world of international T20 cricket, a fitting occasion to relax the stricter new team rules.

The ECB had put the extremely firm guidelines and midnight curfew in place in the wake of discipline issues on recent international trips to New Zealand and Australia. The new code clearly insists " no alcohol should be consumed on match day's, the day before a game and the day post match' howe...