Michael Vaughan defends Ben Duckett amid Ashes drinking controversy, blames…
The fourth test of the Ashes series is all set to be played on Friday December 26. However, the contest has becomes more disappointing after the drinking rumors.
A video went viral. Where the star England player and one of the most dominating batters of all time. Ben Duckett appearing drunk and confuses while trying to return to the team hotel at a beach resort in Noosa.
However, former England captain and one of the toughest players of all time. Michael Vaughan said that Ben Duckett should not be blamed on his own. He added that the real problem is cricket’s long-standing drinking culture.
“I am not going to point the finger at a group of young people who have had a few beers on a couple of days off. I did exactly the same as them when I played for England, although I did at least know when it was time to go home and that is probably what Ben Duckett needs to learn,” Vaughan wrote in his column for The Telegraph.
“Duckett should not be reprimanded at all on the evidence we have seen and neither should the other players because it is a wider issue: the game of cricket has created this drinking culture. England, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa all have the same culture,” Vaughan wrote.
“You give a group of young people three or four days off to relax and they are going to do something like this,” he added.
“The thing about Noosa is that it was booked a year ago. But they did not book the Waca a year ago. How did they not prepare for a bouncy pitch leading into a first Test, but at the same time had booked their holiday in Noosa?” questioned Vaughan.
“They also do not have a fielding coach on tour and are dropping catches. They have a spin-bowling coach but do not pick the spinner. They have reduced the role of data analysis. They have got to be better at the attention to detail, but attention to detail is boring,” he further wrote.
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