{"id":368269,"date":"2025-12-24T06:10:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T06:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/368269\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T06:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T06:10:13","slug":"england-cricket-board-to-probe-video-of-disoriented-test-star-ben-duckett-ben-stokes-defends-teammates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/368269\/","title":{"rendered":"England cricket board to probe video of disoriented Test star Ben Duckett, Ben Stokes defends teammates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t have a leg to stand on when you\u2019ve lost three games in a huge series like this. When you\u2019re winning everything\u2019s great, when you\u2019re losing it\u2019s not. When you are 3-0 down you don\u2019t really have a leg to stand on but we\u2019ve got two games of cricket to play. That\u2019s what we have to focus on. We haven\u2019t won a game in Aust for a long, long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 78-second video of Duckett was shared on social media just hours after Key said he would investigate claims players drank excessively in Noosa.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"England\u2019s Ben Duckett. \" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/73758f9b86dd5fa7af8a786cb260e2750d06abfa.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>England\u2019s Ben Duckett. Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The video has not been verified by this masthead but the ECB has said in a statement, which did not reference any players, that it was aware of its circulation on social media but would not comment further \u201cwhile we establish the facts\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The footage appears to have been taken between the second and third Tests and includes a reference from an England supporter, who calls himself \u201cSam\u201d, that the visitors are down 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>The video shows a man, identified by others in the clip as Duckett, appearing disoriented, confused and slurring his words, unable to find his way home.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n<p>The video starts with Sam offering to order the disoriented man a \u201cf&#8212;ing Uber on your phone\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A woman then asks the man if he wants her to ask security to speak to his friends, before checking if he knows where he is staying and if he knows the directions home. The man replies no.<\/p>\n<p>He then engages in friendly banter with Sam, calling him a \u201cprick\u201d after Sam offered to order \u201can Uber to the nets\u201d and that \u201cit\u2019s probably for the best\u201d as \u201cwe\u2019re losing 2-0\u2033.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n<p>After being identified by Sam, the man tells him \u201cI don\u2019t think people know me\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know you, brother,\u201d Sam says.<\/p>\n<p>The ECB released a statement late on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are aware of content circulating on social media,\u201d an ECB spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have high expectations for behaviour, accepting that players are often under intense levels of scrutiny, with established processes that we follow when conduct falls below expectations. We also support players that need assistance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not comment further at this stage while we establish the facts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cYou don\u2019t have a leg to stand on when you\u2019ve lost three games in a huge series like&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-368269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}