English cricket is dealing with yet more embarrassing headlines after footage emerged of fast bowler Brydon Carse handcuffed by police outside a Derby nightclub late on Saturday.Carse, who was part of England’s squad for the first two Tests against Pakistan and their leading wicket-taker during the Ashes defeat in Australia, was released without charge, having been out celebrating with Durham team-mates following their win over Derbyshire in the county championship.A short video posted on social media showed Carse, 31, surrounded by four policemen outside the club, with fellow Durham stars Ben Stokes and Matthew Potts in the background. One of the policemen is heard to say: ‘Just get him over there.’It is unclear why Carse was placed in handcuffs, and he is understood to have returned to the team hotel soon after.The England and Wales Cricket Board said: ‘We are aware of an incident which is reported to have taken place in Derby [on Saturday] night, and are currently investigating. We will provide a further update when possible.’No decision has yet been made over whether Carse will be removed from England’s 16-man squad for the second Test against Pakistan at Lord’s, starting on Thursday, while the ECB and the independent Cricket Regulator investigate the incident. Brydon Carse was spotted in handcuffs surrounded by police outside a nightclub in DerbyThe news comes not long after England’s new Test captain, Joe Root, abolished the team curfew that had been in place since the Ashes defeat in January, insisting his players should be trusted to behave like ‘grown adults’.That followed a string of drink-related incidents over the past year that have sparked fresh debate about cricket’s relationship with alcohol.In October, white-ball captain Harry Brook was punched by a nightclub bouncer on the eve of a one-day international in Wellington, New Zealand – an incident the ECB hushed up until the story broke on the last day of the fifth Test against Australia at Sydney in January.In the meantime, England’s Ashes squad spent four high-profile days between the second and third Tests in the Sunshine Coast resort of Noosa. Opening batsman Ben Duckett was filmed by a member of the public slurring his words during a late-night exchange, while observers likened the trip to a ‘stag-do’.In June, Stokes and fast bowler Gus Atkinson missed the second Test against New Zealand after they broke the team curfew at a west London nightclub celebrating England’s first-Test win at Lord’s. They both claimed they didn’t know the curfew still operated after the end of a home Test, and Stokes retired from international cricket soon after.Carse, who has won 14 Test caps, has been in trouble with the authorities before, having been suspended for three months in 2024 for historic betting offences, which involved placing 303 bets on matches between 2017 and 2019.