The English cricket team aren’t exactly playing in a way to
make the others happy. However, for former England captain, it is not the
on-field performances that is irking him, rather it is the way the England
players have carried themselves out of the ground.
Even before the Ashes began, Jonny Bairstow was facing the
storm for his headbutt greeting on Cameron Bancroft. And now, after losing the
Adelaide Test, the England players were once again caught in a scandal as Ben
Duckett deliberately threw a drink on James Anderson.
And former England captain, Michael Vaughan, was particular
displeased at the way the players have behaved.
"To think you've gone back to the same bar where the
Bairstow incident happened, the first night you're back in town, it's just
stupid,"
"You can't fathom the mentality of a group of people
who suddenly say 'Right, we're going out, we've found a venue, and you know
what, we're going back [to] the Avenue bar'.”
He then slammed some of the “bad eggs” of the team and was
baffled at how team director, Andrew Strauss, and captain Joe Root could
tolerate such things.
"You have one or two bad eggs and let's be honest, they
act like students when they go out, big trays of shots."
"How can [director] Andrew Strauss or [captain] Joe
Root stop someone being an idiot?" he said.
Vaughan then called for the problematic characters of the
team to be sent back home the moment they do something bad.
"It's got to the stage that every single England
cricketer needs to be sat in a room and [told] if you bring any bad PR on the team
you just get sent home.
"I agree with [England coach] Trevor Bayliss. If he
feels he's got to get rid of a few people, that's what he's got to do."
Michael Vaughan is an active member of the Twitter community
and has opined that blaming the social media for the English players’
wrongdoings is a senseless thing to do.
"It winds me up when I hear this social media is the
problem," Vaughan said.
"Social media didn't pour a drink over someone's head;
social media didn't punch someone in the street in Bristol; social media didn't
introduce himself with a headbutt.
"Social media didn't release what happened on Thursday
night. It's an easy excuse.
"The perception of this England side is that they drink
and party too much. There's only one way to deal with it – don't do it."
Indeed, the current England side are developing a bad
reputation for their off-field antics. As a result, they are just becoming more
enmeshed with controversy and less with cricket.
