Tag: Post-Ashes drink

  • ‘Are we going to have a lager or now not?’: Steve Smith remembers how Ben Stokes ‘two mins’ changed into an hour

    Steve Smith admitted that the England staff left them stranded after the 5th and ultimate check for the post-Ashes sequence drink and mentioned it was once a disgrace that a possibility to proceed that lengthy custom by no means got here.

    “We did knock at the door a few occasions. We have been ready round some time and Stokesy got here out at one level and mentioned ‘two mins’ and about an hour handed,” Smith advised SEN 1170’s The Run House.

    “We concept, ‘we will be able to’t stay sitting right here. Are we going to have a lager or now not’? The fellows were given just a little bored stiff and determined it was once time to head.

    “It was once unlucky, it was once the primary time in my profession that we’ve now not had a drink with them after a sequence and it was once just a little of a disgrace.

    “They stuck up with some of the boys within the nightclub afterward that evening, I had long past house via that level, but it surely was once a disgrace to not have a lager and mirror on what was once a horny cool sequence.”

    England skipper Ben Stokes has later clarified on Twitter that the 2 groups had agreed to fulfill at a nightclub as an alternative.

    “To explain… Our wrap took longer than anticipated on account of a couple of final time occasions,” Stokes tweeted.

    “We determined to fulfill up within the nightclub fairly than the dressing room.”

    Talking at the Willow Communicate podcast, Head showed England had now not purposely have shyed away from the post-Ashes beverages, however their speeches ran considerably longer than they have been advised they’d.

    “Publish-match, I believe we hung round for slightly bit. They’d a few retirements, and, I believe, a couple of body of workers that was once going. We kind of knocked a few occasions and were given advised two mins, which changed into an hour, and the men were given just a little bored stiff,” Head mentioned.

    “However yeah, some of the boys met up with them afterwards, and I’ve been involved with a few the fellows that I used to be shut with concerning the variations within the timings. Somewhat disappointing, however I don’t suppose it was once via design.”