Travis Head has revealed he reached out to Ben Duckett to test on his welfare after a video of the England batter went viral final week, showing to point out him intoxicated whereas on an evening out throughout the Ashes tour.
Scrutiny has adopted England throughout this Ashes sequence, with experiences rising that the Bazballers’ mid-series break in Noosa had become a beer-drinking ‘stag do’.
Duckett has struggled for type throughout the sequence, however on Saturday amassed 34 runs throughout a second-innings cameo to assist the vacationers snap their 15-year wait to win a Check match in Australia.
After England had wrapped up the Boxing Day Check in lower than two days, members of the Australian cricket staff returned to Yarra Park to signal autographs and meet with followers who would have attended day three.
Head, who’s pleasant with Duckett, was requested about what he manufactured from England’s journey to Noosa.
‘I’m jealous,’ he replied, laughing earlier than including: ‘Everybody else has made much more about it than it ought to have been.
Travis Head has revealed that he reached out to England star Ben Duckett (pictured) to test on his welfare after a video went viral of Duckett showing intoxicated
Head (piectured) felt empathy for the England batter, stating to members of the media that: ‘Everybody’s nonetheless human’
‘We’ve accomplished the identical factor on previous excursions. I don’t have a problem with it.’
The South Australian batter stated he had felt for Duckett, earlier than including that he moved to achieve out to test in on the England star.
‘Yeah, stiff, I believe [the video came] from one among his personal as properly. I reckon it was an English fan as properly, which is a bit stiff,’ Head stated.
‘I get together with Duckey properly. Reached out to him to see if he was going alright.
‘Everybody’s nonetheless human, everybody’s nonetheless folks, and what you do in your private time is as much as you. I do know we reside a high-profile life, and a few persons are extra high-profile than others and get themselves in conditions, however on the finish of the day, it’s a bit stiff.
‘However I don’t assume there’s any actual concern. That’s one thing to speak about.
‘Like I stated, when there’s large gaps in Assessments, [you’ve] acquired to search out one thing to speak about. So hopefully [we] can play a bit longer subsequent week and fewer stuff to speak about.’
Chaos ensued on day one of many Boxing Day Check, with 20 wickets falling in in the future. It was the primary time Australia has seen 20 wickets in in the future of a Check match since 1951.
A video emerged on-line of England batsman Ben Duckett (pictured) showing to be drunk
Duckett (pictured) would rating 34 runs throughout England’s second innings of the Boxing Day Check to assist information his facet to a four-wicket victory on the MCG
England skipper Ben Stokes (left) requested for ’empathy’ over the state of affairs. Following the match he stated he was pleased with how his staff had bounced again following a troublesome week
England would seal a four-wicket victory after solely 852 balls had been delivered throughout your complete match – making it the shortest-ever Check on the MCG since Australia’s conflict towards South Africa in 1932, the place a complete of 656 deliveries had been bowled.
A proud Ben Stokes hailed his staff for lastly ending their await a win on Australian soil, including that the victory was significantly vital contemplating the scrutiny the staff had been underneath forward of the match.
His feedback got here after the England skipper had pleaded for ‘empathy’ for Duckett, describing him as an ‘essential participant for the staff’.
‘It is a particular feeling,’ Stokes informed TNT Sports activities. ‘Me and Joe [Root] have been on a couple of excursions and it is not gone significantly properly. However a tremendous feeling.
‘I believe particularly, the couple of days within the build-up to this Check match, it was clearly a troublesome time for us as a staff and sure people.
‘However the way in which by which we had been capable of hold the concentrate on a very powerful factor, which was the cricket on the market, was fairly distinctive, I believe.’
ECB managing director Rob Key insisted final week that he could be investigating experiences of heavy ingesting throughout the tour.
England and Australia meet for the ultimate Check of the sequence on the Sydny Cricket Floor on Sunday, January 4.
