{"id":339373,"date":"2025-12-28T14:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T14:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/339373\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T14:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T14:33:11","slug":"everyone-is-still-human-travis-head-sends-message-of-support-to-ben-duckett-ashes-2025-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/339373\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Everyone is still human\u2019: Travis Head sends message of support to Ben Duckett | Ashes 2025-26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Travis Head has revealed he sent a message of support to his Ashes rival Ben Duckett after the England batter found himself on the end of a social media backlash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Unverified footage appearing to show an intoxicated Duckett in a tetchy late-night conversation with a fan during the team\u2019s mid-series break in Noosa placed an unwanted spotlight on the opener.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Hours earlier, the England managing director, Rob Key, had called excessive drinking \u201ccompletely unacceptable\u201d and said he would be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/dec\/23\/england-cricket-mid-ashes-break-noosa-excessive-drinking\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">investigating reports<\/a> of what happened on the trip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The England captain, Ben Stokes, publicly backed Duckett and called for \u201cempathy\u201d in an emotive press conference before the fourth Ashes Test. Head said he felt compelled to check in with an opponent with whom he has got on well ever since their time facing each other as Under-19s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cI get along with Ducky well, I reached out to him to see if he was going alright,\u201d he told reporters at the MCG after England\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/dec\/27\/ashes-australia-england-cricket-fourth-test-boxing-day-two-report\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">two-day win in the fourth Test.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cEveryone is still human. What you do in personal time is up to you. I know we live a high-profile life and some people are more high-profile \u2026 but at the end of the day it was a bit stiff [unfair]. Everyone made a lot more out of it that there should have been. It [the video] was from one of his own as well, I reckon it was an England fan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cI don\u2019t think it was any real issue,\u201d the Australia batter added. \u201cWhen there\u2019s big gaps in Tests, people have got to find something to talk about. Hopefully we can play a bit longer next week and there\u2019s less stuff to talk about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Duckett was dismissed for two on day one in Melbourne but made 34 important runs in their winning chase of 175. Posting a picture of himself clapping the travelling England fans online, he wrote: \u201cAmazing end to a pretty tough week.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Travis Head has revealed he sent a message of support to his Ashes rival Ben Duckett after the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-339373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}