Immigration forces England cricket writers to leave tour early THREE of their cricketers abandoned the Ashes tour and now three senior English cricket reporters must follow them home because of bizarre Australian immigration regulations While it might be assumed the trio would be relieved to leave a tour during which England has failed to notch up a single win over Australia, they insist they are frustrated and annoyed at not being able to finish the job they came to do. John Etheridge of The Sun, Paul Newman of the Daily Mail and Dean Wilson of The Mirror have battled with bureaucracy since arriving on the 100-day Australian tour. They were issued with 90-day visas and have tried ever since to get an extension to cover the remaining one-day and T20 games, but with no luck. Yesterday, the trio were told that they would have to leave. Cricket Australia lobbied on behalf of the reporters but to no avail. Etheridge told The Australian that Australia was a "beautiful country often suffocated by rules and regulations." "I have been on six previous Ashes tours and not missed a day of any," he said. Now Dean Wilson and I will have to leave by Saturday. We arrived to do a job and we want to finish it. Newman arrived later and can cover the last one day match in Adelaide, but will miss the three T20 games. "We wanted to stay long enough to see our side beat Australia once," Etheridge joked. Cricket Australia have been very helpful but to no avail and I have been tweeting Tony Abbott but had no response. The three were told they could go to another country and reapply but by the time they were told they could not get an extension this was not an option and too expensive anyway. Etheridge said they had never encountered this problem in any other country or on any other visit to Australia. Cricketers Jonathan Trott, Graeme Swann and Steven Finn all left the tour early.