{"id":867918,"date":"2026-08-25T13:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T13:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/867918\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T13:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T13:52:12","slug":"england-captain-joe-root-hacked-off-and-disappointed-at-carse-incident-england-cricket-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/867918\/","title":{"rendered":"England captain Joe Root \u2018hacked off\u2019 and \u2018disappointed\u2019 at Carse incident | England cricket team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Angry England captain Joe Root<\/a> declared himself \u201creally hacked off\u201d by the latest drinking drama to engulf his side, claiming they must now work hard to regain public trust.<\/p>\n

The pace bowler Brydon Carse was removed from the squad for this week\u2019s second Test against Pakistan<\/a> after joining a growing list of contracted players who have involved in alcohol-related incidents in the past year.<\/p>\n

Carse was detained by police on suspicion of being drunk and disorderly outside a nightclub on Saturday night after celebrating Durham\u2019s County Championship win over Derbyshire alongside teammates including former England captain Ben Stokes and seamer Matthew Potts.<\/p>\n

He was subsequently cut by England for Thursday\u2019s match at Lord\u2019s, with an investigation under way by the independent Cricket<\/a> Regulator. But for the England and Wales Cricket Board, and Root, it was another staggering but familiar setback.<\/p>\n

Stokes\u2019 shock international retirement came after he and Gus Atkinson were stood down for a Test after breaching contractual obligations on a late night out in London<\/a> at the start of the summer, a boozy beach break in Noosa was widely pilloried as symptomatic of a dismal Ashes campaign and white-ball captain Harry Brook was punched by a bouncer in Wellington last October while drinking the night before a one-day international against New Zealand.<\/p>\n

Reacting to the latest disciplinary flare-up, which broke just days after Root announced the abolition of a midnight curfew, Root said: \u201cIf I\u2019m being brutally honest I\u2019m really hacked off. I\u2019m really disappointed that, after last week\u2019s performance<\/a> [winning by an innings at Headingley], we\u2019re sat here and we\u2019re talking about something that is not related to it at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve spoken to Brydon and when I first found out my first concern was him as a person. I don\u2019t think I\u2019m speaking out of turn in saying he\u2019s very upset, very apologetic and understands his actions. I\u2019m sure when he gets his chance, he will say that himself. But it\u2019s not the isolated incident itself, it\u2019s the fact we continuously keep making stupid mistakes away from the game and it\u2019s detracting from what we are doing on the field.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for the wider reputational damage sustained over several months, Root admitted he had a battle to win back hearts and minds.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s not going to happen overnight, but in many ways we are going to have to earn a lot of trust back,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s something we are going to have to live and breathe, consistently.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Angry England captain Joe Root declared himself \u201creally hacked off\u201d by the latest drinking drama to engulf his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":867919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-867918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867918","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=867918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}