England managing director Rob Key pledged on Tuesday to investigate whether players’s drinking on a mid-Ashes beach break went too far, after reports said it had been like a “stag-do.” 

The England team headed to Queensland tourist playground Noosa after heavily losing the first two Tests in Perth and Brisbane. They spent several days on the sand and around restaurants and bars, followed by TV crews, photographers and reporters before travelling to Adelaide where they lost the third Test and the Ashes.