Ashes 2022: Moment Aussie and English cricket stars are KICKED OUT of Hobart bar by police

Astonishing footage has shown the moment Australia and England’s cricket stars were kicked out of a rooftop bar after partying all night to celebrate the end of the Ashes. 

The video showed Tasmanian police officers telling Australian stars Nathan Lyon, Travis Head and Alex Carey and England captain Joe Root to leave the Crowne Plaza Hobart as dawn broke on Monday morning.

‘You’re too loud and have obviously been asked to pack up,’ a female officer told the group, who were sitting around a table covered in beer bottles.

‘We have been asked to come. It’s time for bed.’ 

Some of the players – including Carey and Lyon – were still wearing their cricket whites eight hours after Australia wrapped up a 4-0 series victory on Sunday night.  

England bowler Jimmy Anderson, who was wearing a grey camouflage hoodie, was among the other players who were asked to leave.

A clock in the background of the video indicated the group were kicked out about 6am. 

The man holding the camera said he was filming the players being removed from the venue ‘for the lawyers’.

‘We got Nathan Lyon, Root, there’s Carey and Anderson,’ the man said.

‘I’ll just video this for the lawyers.

‘See you in the morning everyone’ 

A Tasmania Police spokesman said officers were called to reports of ‘intoxicated people in a function area’.

‘The guests were spoken to by police just after 6am and left the area when asked,’ the spokesman said.

Astonishing footage has captured the moment Australia and England’s cricket stars were kicked out of a rooftop bar by police

‘No further action will be taken by police.’

The footage emerged as England’s disastrous Ashes trip was clouded by reports of a drinking culture developing among players and backroom staff.

With bubble life at times restricting the movement of the tourists, alcohol was more readily available than usual at the team’s various hotels. 

Allowances were made because of the claustrophobic nature of life during the pandemic, with the England team spending more time in bubbles than any other side in the world since a pandemic was declared almost two years ago.

But some members of the coaching staff are understood to have been drinking as heavily as the players. 

England players suffered an embarrassing 4-0 Ashes loss to Australia this winter

One possibility after Covid restrictions come to an end is the return of the curfews imposed by former managing director Andrew Strauss during the previous Ashes tour. 

During that 2017-18 tour, it emerged that Jonny Bairstow had greeted Australian opener Cameron Bancroft with a headbutt in a Perth bar. 

Strauss, who now chairs the ECB’s performance cricket committee, will assess managing director Ashley Giles’ report, along with chief executive Tom Harrison, who is believed to have been unimpressed with the England set-up during his three-week visit to Australia.  

Travis Head had only eight hours earlier being crowned as the player of the series

England have now played 15 Test matches in Australia without a win, despite becoming a powerhouse in white-ball cricket.

Root said the team’s disastrous Ashes campaign should serve as an opportunity to prioritise test cricket again.

‘There are certain things that definitely need to change,’ Root said after England lost 10 wickets for 78 runs in little more than an hour and a half to crumble in the fifth and final Ashes test.

‘We’ve got an opportunity to really prioritise test cricket off the back of this and make a real significant change to the game and prioritise this team.

‘Let’s hope that happens in due course.