Ashes 2022: Moment Aussie and English cricket stars are KICKED OUT of Hobart bar by police

Astonishing footage has shown the moment Australia and England’s cricket stars were kicked out of a rooftop bar after partying all night to celebrate the end of the Ashes. 

The video showed Tasmanian police officers telling England captain Joe Root and Australian stars Nathan Lyon, Travis Head and Alex Carey to leave the Crowne Plaza Hobart as dawn broke on Monday morning.

‘You’re too loud and have obviously been asked to pack up,’ a female officer told the group, who were sitting around a table covered in beer bottles.

‘We have been asked to come. It’s time for bed.’ 

Some of the players – including Carey and Lyon – were still wearing their cricket whites eight hours after Australia wrapped up a 4-0 series victory on Sunday night.

England bowler Jimmy Anderson, who was wearing a grey camouflage hoodie, was among the other players who were asked to leave.

A clock in the background of the video indicated the group were kicked out about 6am. 

Big night out: Astonishing footage has captured the moment Australia and England's cricket stars including Nathan Lyon and Joe Root were kicked out of a rooftop bar by police

England captain Joe Root was seen at the crack of dawn at a bar in Hobart after England's Ashes defeat

Astonishing footage has captured the moment Australia and England’s cricket stars were kicked out of a rooftop bar by police (pic left: Nathan Lyon, pic right: Joe Root)

Man of the series Travis Head was also amongst the crowd

Man of the series Travis Head was also amongst the crowd 

The man holding the camera said he was filming the players being removed from the venue ‘for the lawyers’. 

‘We got Nathan Lyon, Root, there’s Carey and Anderson,’ the man said.

‘I’ll just video this for the lawyers. 

‘See you in the morning everyone’ 

A Tasmania Police spokesman said officers were called to reports of ‘intoxicated people in a function area’.

‘The guests were spoken to by police just after 6am and left the area when asked,’ the spokesman said.

‘No further action will be taken by police.’

The footage emerged as England’s disastrous Ashes trip was clouded by reports of a drinking culture developing among players and backroom staff.

England players suffered an embarrassing 4-0 Ashes loss to Australia this winter

England players suffered an embarrassing 4-0 Ashes loss to Australia this winter

With bubble life at times restricting the movement of the tourists, alcohol was more readily available than usual at the team’s various hotels. 

Allowances were made because of the claustrophobic nature of life during the pandemic, with the England team spending more time in bubbles than any other side in the world since a pandemic was declared almost two years ago.

But some members of the coaching staff are understood to have been drinking as heavily as the players. 

One possibility after Covid restrictions come to an end is the return of the curfews imposed by former managing director Andrew Strauss during the previous Ashes tour. 

During that 2017-18 tour, it emerged that Jonny Bairstow had greeted Australian opener Cameron Bancroft with a headbutt in a Perth bar. 

Strauss, who now chairs the ECB’s performance cricket committee, will assess managing director Ashley Giles’ report, along with chief executive Tom Harrison, who is believed to have been unimpressed with the England set-up during his three-week visit to Australia.  

Head had only eight hours earlier been crowned as the Ashes player of the series

Head had only eight hours earlier been crowned as the Ashes player of the series

England have now played 15 Test matches in Australia without a win, despite becoming a powerhouse in white-ball cricket.

Root said the team’s disastrous Ashes campaign should serve as an opportunity to prioritise test cricket again.

‘There are certain things that definitely need to change,’ Root said after England lost 10 wickets for 78 runs in little more than an hour and a half to crumble in the fifth and final Ashes test.

‘We’ve got an opportunity to really prioritise test cricket off the back of this and make a real significant change to the game and prioritise this team. Let’s hope that happens in due course.’

REVEALED: There was a BOOZE culture on England’s disastrous Ashes tour, with coaches drinking just as heavily as players in hotel bubbles – and curfews are now likely to return on away trips 

By Lawrence Booth  

England’s disastrous Ashes trip has been further clouded by concerns over a drinking culture developing among players and backroom staff, as the team managing director Ashley Giles prepared an end-of-tour report that could decide the fate of head coach Chris Silverwood.

With bubble life at times restricting the movement of the tourists, alcohol was more readily available than usual at the team’s various hotels — and that placed a premium on making the most of the occasional night out.

Allowances were made because of the claustrophobic nature of life during the pandemic, with the England team spending more time in bubbles than any other side in the world since a pandemic was declared almost two years ago.

But some members of the coaching staff are understood to have been drinking as heavily as the players. 

One possibility after Covid restrictions come to an end is the return of the curfews imposed by former managing director Andrew Strauss during the previous Ashes tour, when it emerged that Jonny Bairstow had greeted Australian opener Cameron  Bancroft with a headbutt in a Perth bar. 

Strauss, who now chairs the ECB’s performance cricket committee, will assess Giles’ report, along with chief executive Tom Harrison, who is believed to have been unimpressed with the England set-up during his three-week visit to Australia. 

England players suffered an embarrassing 4-0 Ashes loss to Australia this winter

Rules had been relaxed regarding alcohol ahead of the tour given the Covid restrictions

Rules had been relaxed regarding alcohol ahead of the tour given the Covid restrictions

In another incident, one of the players declined to take a skin-fold test, then claimed England were trying to ‘fat-shame’ him.

A decision on Silverwood’s fate will need to be made quickly, with England’s Test team set to leave for a three-match series in the Caribbean towards the end of February.

For his part, Silverwood has insisted he wants to stay on as England head coach — but admitted he could have ‘shown my teeth more’ to the players amid accusations of dressing-room cosiness.

Since beating India at Chennai last February, England have lost 10 Tests out of 14 and won only one — their worst sequence for 25 years. That has left Silverwood’s fate dependent both on the post-series report by Giles and the views of Harrison and other members of the performance cricket committee, chaired by Strauss.

There is a loss of confidence among the players in Silverwood’s ability and disappointment at poor communication.

Before one Test, the coach sat down to tell a player he had been dropped, only for the player to say he had already read of his demise in a newspaper. 

England head coach Chris Silverwood (left) is awaiting a decision about his future

England head coach Chris Silverwood (left) is awaiting a decision about his future

But Silverwood is adamant that, with the help of a reformed red-ball driven domestic structure, he can turn it around. ‘My job will be under scrutiny,’ he said. ‘But I would love to help effect those changes within the county structures. I would like to put some of this right. I think I’m a good coach, but there are things that are out of my hands.’

With less than six weeks before England fly to the Caribbean, Harrison and Strauss have little time to make recommendations to the ECB board. But whoever emerges as head coach may find powers diluted, with Silverwood struggling to balance day-to-day coaching with the dual demands of the Test and white-ball teams, plus the role of chief selector.

Assistant coaches such as Paul Collingwood, in charge of the T20 team’s tour of the Caribbean, and Graham Thorpe may be asked to take on more responsibility.

The hierarchy must also decide whether a combination of Root and Silverwood lacks a bad-cop figure to tell the players home truths, with Root admitting after the Hobart loss that ‘there might be times where we need to get a little bit harder’.

England's managing director Ashley Giles is now preparing an end-of-tour report

England’s managing director Ashley Giles is now preparing an end-of-tour report

Silverwood said: ‘I try to work through things with them, rather than shout or growl. I’m not afraid to show my teeth, but I sometimes wonder whether I should do it more. But then does it make it less effective? I don’t know.’

The farcical conclusion to the fifth Test may not work in his favour. Silverwood said after the surrender: ‘I believe they’re still playing for us. What we saw was players that are tired. It was hard to watch.’

For now, he said he would ‘start planning for the West Indies’ and considering options outside the 16 who played in Australia. ‘What have we got out there? Do we need to make changes?’ Silverwood pondered.

Whether he is asking those questions in a few weeks’ time is a matter for his bosses.

source: dailymail.co.uk