Viewed on the anti pom forum - What a pack of sanctimonious, miserable, sore losers.
England’s cry-baby reaction to a fair dismissal in the Lord’s cricket Test has shown their national cricket team to be hypocritical, pompous whingers.
Alex Carey’s stumping of a vague Jonny Bairstow was legal, moral and, ultimately, a match-winner.
The protesting Poms can have a two finger salute – which could also double as the series score. That’s right, it’s two-nil.
Remember Stuart Broad clearly edging an Ashton Agar delivery to first slip at Trent Bridge in 2013 and refusing to walk?
Remember Broad laughing and celebrating when England ran out New Zealand’s Colin de Grandhomme, who walked out of his crease, last year?
Remember on day three when Bairstow, a wicketkeeper, attempted to stump Marnus Labuschagne in exactly the same manner?
And remember England’s head coach, the already under-pressure Brendon McCullum, throwing down the stumps of a batsmen unaware the ball hadn’t yet been declared dead? Oh, and he did that three times in 2005, 2006 and 2009.
England’s posturing and pretence smacks of two-faced double standards. Carey’s actions were quick-thinking, instinctive and well within the perimeters of cricket’s rules.
Brendon McCullum threw the stumps down multiple times during his career as a wicketkeeper, but now it’s not in the spirit of the game?
Did you hear Australian players moan and sob when Mitchell Starc was denied a fair catch in the outfield on day four?
As one journalist wrote: “Turns out the ‘spirit of cricket’ only applies when England says so.”
This non-event was concocted by a team under excruciating pressure for employing a failing new attacking style of play.
Their aggressive batting style – nicknamed Bazball after coach McCallum – is floundering.
And those Lord’s members who want to be known as the aristocratic elite have shown themselves to be mere commoners like the rest of us.
Imagine the silver spoon Long Room faithful, wearing suits and ties, actually taunting, jostling and abusing opposition players? Oh how utterly ashamed they must feel from their distinguished and affluent abodes in Mayfair and Knightsbridge.
And it’s strange how the seemingly all white pavilion appeared to target Usman Khawaja, Australia’s Muslim opening batsman.
The entire episode was shameful and mean-spirited. Lord’s once regal image now belongs in a hearse.
