Rishi Sunak attends the second Ashes Check at Lord’s© AFP
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday aimed a verbal bouncer at Australia’s cricketers after the Lord’s Ashes match — however dominated out turning it right into a Bodyline-style diplomatic incident. Jonny Bairstow’s controversial dismissal was not consistent with the spirit of the sport, Sunak’s spokesman advised reporters. “The prime minister agrees with (England captain) Ben Stokes who stated he merely would not need to win a sport within the method that Australia did,” the spokesman stated. However Sunak, a eager cricket fan who watched with Prince William from the Lord’s pavilion on Saturday, additionally deplored the Lengthy Room abuse directed on the Australians by Marylebone Cricket Membership members.
“He thinks it was proper that the MCC have taken swift motion to droop any members accused of poor behaviour,” the spokesman stated.
Sunak believed that the standing ovation given by MCC members to Australia’s hobbling spinner Nathan Lyon, as he got here out to bat on Saturday, was “way more consistent with the spirit of the sport”.
However Sunak has no intention of lodging an official protest with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, to reprise the intense diplomatic strains created by England’s “Bodyline” ways within the 1932-33 Ashes Down Beneath.
Whereas there’s a “pleasant rivalry” over sport between the 2 leaders, Sunak doesn’t view cricket as a core diplomatic subject, the spokesman remarked.
“The sport did present a chance to see Ben Stokes at his finest and it was an unbelievable Check match — he has confidence that England will bounce again at Headingley,” he added, after Stokes hit a blazing 155.
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