Comparing England’s Ashes cricketers socialising between matches to a stag do is completely over the top and, as someone who has lost Test series in Australia myself, I have sympathy for them. Well, it took place during designated downtime on a short break in Noosa, unwinding before the action resumed in Adelaide. You open those floodgatesLike Joe Root saying he was not thinking about getting a hundred out there, just focusing on helping the England team win. He's done a really good job, the players respond really well to him and tactically he's very good. But I love watching him marshal the troops on the field, he's so passionate about English cricket, and I don't really see any natural successor in that team right now.

Source: Daily Mail December 23, 2025 00:36 UTC