Chris Woakes has accused the ECB of ‘bottling’ the chance to project England’s historic World Cup win with an open top bus parade. In an extract from his autobiography The Wizard, published by The Guardian, the ex England all-rounder lamented the lack of a celebration commensurate with the magnitude of winning a first 50-over title in 2019.Arguing that it was on a par with the iconic Ashes triumph of 14 years earlier, he wrote: ‘The 2005 team had been given an open-top bus parade through London and I couldn’t help wonder why delivering the first men’s World Cup in England’s history didn’t merit something similar.‘The country had been transfixed by that final, with a record 15 million viewers tuning in over the course of the match, after Sky had shared the coverage with Channel 4.‘Fair play to Sky: they’d paid top dollar for those rights and were perfectly entitled to keep the coverage to themselves, but they recognised the greater good and did the sport a huge service. So why did the ECB bottle it?‘Football clubs get the open-top bus out for League Cup wins and supporters line the streets to see their heroes. We could have done the same, reaching out to thousands more people than we did. It still makes my blood boil to this day.’The 37-year-old Woakes, who also featured in England’s Twenty20 World Cup-winning side of 2022, recalled the buzz of being able to celebrate the super over victory over New Zealand post match, with friends and family including wife Amie joining him on the Lord’s outfield. Chris Woakes has hit out at killjoy chiefs who denied England’s World Cup heroes of a party England conquered the world in 2019 but a strict curfew meant they could not enjoy a proper celebrationCelebrations continued with champagne and other drinks in the dressing room, but a block on taking those celebrations into central London’s early hours rankled some of the senior players, according to Woakes.‘From there, it was back to the Landmark hotel, where a bit of aggro followed. It was around 10pm but our midnight curfew was still in place, making it a bit pointless to go back out in town unless the restriction was lifted,’ he added.‘Sadly, Ashley Giles, who’d been our director of cricket since the previous year, was having none of it.‘It felt like the ECB was too worried about what could go wrong. Some of the lads properly kicked off here, not least since Gilo himself had been part of the 2005 celebrations that had become folklore.‘So, we settled in back at the hotel bar feeling a bit aggrieved; forced to settle for the same surroundings as the night before when a fresh location was the order of the day.‘A bit like the lack of a parade, it seemed needlessly cautious. We had won a World Cup, for heaven’s sake – if you can’t milk it then, when can you?’