England must send bad boy home: Vaughan

Perth Former England captain Michael Vaughan has called for the next player to step out of line on the Ashes tour to be sent home.

His demand followed the fine and ban meted out to England Lions player Ben Duckett for pouring a drink over James Anderson at the same Perth nightspot where Jonny Bairstow ‘head-butted’ Cameron Bancroft earlier in the tour.

Vaughan, in Australia as a BT Sport commentator, said: ‘I think the actual punishment has to be a little bit stronger. I think every single England cricketer needs to be sat in a room and told, “Do what you want but if you bring any bad PR on the team — and surveillance will be on you, so any small incident will be a big incident — you just get sent home”.

‘That’s the stage it’s got to, a stage I wouldn’t want the team to get into but I actually hope the team are quite embarrassed about what’s being written about them.

‘Ben Duckett’s a young kid but I would question the senior boys who were in that bar that night. They are the role models of the team those young players should be looking up to.

“And yes, they need to release a bit of the pressure they’ve been under, but with what’s gone on you have to question what the hell they are doing out at a bar at that time of night?

‘‘There’s a team room, there are plenty of places where you can have a drink and a laugh but to go on show... it’s the ultimate crime to go back to the place where the last crime took place just a couple of weeks before.”