England have launched an investigation into claims that their four-day journey to the vacation resort of Noosa between the second and third Ashes Checks become a beer-drinking stag-do.
Managing director Rob Key insisted the gamers had been on their finest behaviour through the journey up Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, however stated the experiences of heavy boozing could be regarded into, and admitted: ‘Ingesting extreme quantities of alcohol for a global cricket crew is just not one thing I would count on to see at any stage.’
He added: ‘In the event that they’re consuming tons and it is a stag-do, all that kind of stuff, that is utterly unacceptable.
‘I am not a drinker, and I feel a consuming tradition does not assist anybody in any stretch by any means.
‘I’ve no subject with the Noosa journey if it was to get away and simply throw your telephone away, down instruments, go on the seashore.
‘We have added safety, and we have sufficient methods of discovering out precisely what occurred.
Ben Stokes (left) and teammate Matthew Potts are pictured through the crew’s break in Noosa on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, which is now the topic of an investigation by the crew
The Lions stars relaxed on the well-known Aussie vacationer vacation spot (pictured) after dropping the second Take a look at in Brisbane
England managing director Rob Key stated it could be ‘utterly unacceptable’ if crew members are discovered to have been consuming to extra, including, ‘We have sufficient methods of discovering out precisely what occurred’
‘All the pieces I’ve heard to this point is that they sat down, had lunch, had dinner, did not exit late, had the odd drink. I do not thoughts that.
‘If it goes previous that, then that is a difficulty, so far as I am involved.’
With the fourth Take a look at beginning in Melbourne on Boxing Day, and England preventing to keep away from a 3rd 5–0 whitewash in six journeys to Australia, the Noosa journey is an undesirable distraction, with the headlines positive to have raised eyebrows amongst ECB officers again at Lord’s.
And Key admitted the gamers had already been spoken to this winter after an Instagram submit revealed a number of of them – together with Jacob Bethell and Gus Atkinson – out consuming the night time earlier than the third ODI in opposition to New Zealand at Wellington in early November.
‘I feel that was a little bit of a wake-up name, really, for what they had been going into,’ stated Key.
‘I do not thoughts gamers having a glass of wine over dinner. Something greater than that I feel is ridiculous, actually.
‘We have had 4 years the place we have had none of those points with any of the gamers.
‘I did not really feel like that was worthy of formal warnings, nevertheless it was in all probability worthy of casual ones.’
