Ashes villain Alex Carey ‘forgot to pay barber for haircut in Leeds’ ahead of third Test at Headingley
ASHES villain Alex Carey is in more bother after allegedly not being able to pay for his haircut.
The Australian, 31, was centre to the fury at Lord’s on Sunday after stumping Jonny Bairstow.
But former England captain Sir Alastair Cook told the BBC yesterday a hairdresser in Leeds had told him he cut Carey’s hair ahead of the third Test at Headingley.
He said: “Decent haircut at 7pm. I’d been wandering around trying to find somewhere which was open.
“The barber says the Australians had been in.
“He didn’t know his cricket very well so he was telling me what they looked like.
“He said Marnus (Labuschagne), the funny one. Then David Warner had a haircut, Usman (Khawaja) had a haircut and he says ‘oh there’s another one…’
“He says ‘one of them, I think Alex is his name’. I said ‘Alex Carey, wicketkeeper?’.
“He says ‘he hasn’t paid’. It was one of those cash only barbers and he promised him he would do a transfer later on in the day.”
Sir Alastair added: “True story. He might have paid by now.”
One of the TMS team then joked: “Ever rolled coins at the door from 20 yards away?”
Carey was roundly criticised for stumping Bairstow as he walked out of his crease to speak to captain Ben Stokes at the end of an over, believing the ball was dead.
It was perfectly within the laws of cricket but entirely against the spirit of the game.
And the crowd at Headingley yesterday refused to let it go as Aussie openers Khawaja and Warner walked out to the crease.
They even booed the coin toss.
Barmy Army spokesman George Gallantree warned the hostile atmosphere would only get worse.
He said: “It’s going to be louder than a Taylor Swift concert on the Western Terraces after the fans have had a few Tetley Bitters.
“Lord’s is more of a library compared to Headingley.”
Australia captain Pat Cummins was booed in the afternoon as he walked out to join Carey at the crease with his side 249-7.
Fans chanted: “Same old Aussies, always cheating.”
The crowd roared with delight just minutes later as Cummins was out for a duck after facing just two balls – leaving the field to another chorus of boos.