{"id":5793,"date":"2026-01-13T14:34:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T14:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=5793"},"modified":"2026-01-13T14:34:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T14:34:50","slug":"the-ashes-2025-stuart-broad-says-england-do-not-have-a-drinking-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=5793","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes 2025: Stuart Broad says England do not have a drinking problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England started their white-ball tour of New Zealand on 18 October, with multi-format players then heading straight to an Ashes series that lasted from 23 November to 7 January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England will tour Sri Lanka from 22 January, playing both one-day and T20 internationals, leading into a T20 World Cup campaign that starts on 8 February and could last a month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As an international player, you need some sort of release,&#8221; said Broad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If you don&#8217;t have that mental switch off &#8211; I know you [fellow podcast host Jos Buttler] say footballers don&#8217;t &#8211; but cricketers are away six months of the year in hotels, it drives you mad if you don&#8217;t do anything.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve seen Australia winning the Ashes, Travis Head&#8217;s had the time of his life, living the dream, doing interviews on the wines and all sorts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Twelve o&#8217;clock, you&#8217;re not really getting to that time that often, but if you win, you deserve to probably go and relax and enjoy yourself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Buttler, who will play under Brook in the forthcoming white-ball fixtures, said: &#8220;A lot of it is optics as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You&#8217;ve got to be so aware. Your team-mates look after you, also, you&#8217;ve got to look after yourself. There may be some more senior players who are more aware of how to do that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That is a price you do pay for being an international cricketer and playing for England &#8211; you can&#8217;t just go and do whatever you want. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You&#8217;re professional, you have to live a professional life, which the boys do, and you have to make it look that way as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England started their white-ball tour of New Zealand on 18 October, with multi-format players then heading straight to an Ashes series that lasted from 23 November to 7 January. England will tour Sri Lanka from 22 January, playing both one-day and T20 internationals, leading into a T20 World Cup campaign that starts on 8 February<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}