{"id":294118,"date":"2023-10-23T13:25:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T13:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/?p=294118"},"modified":"2023-10-23T13:25:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T13:25:39","slug":"revealed-what-broad-said-to-aussie-players-after-that-bairstow-wicket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/%d1%81ricket\/revealed-what-broad-said-to-aussie-players-after-that-bairstow-wicket\/","title":{"rendered":"REVEALED: What Broad said to Aussie players after THAT Bairstow wicket"},"content":{"rendered":"
One of the memorable moments of this summer\u2019s Ashes was the controversial second-Test dismissal of <\/span>Jonny Bairstow<\/span>, who had stepped out of his crease thinking the ball was dead only for Australia wicketkeeper Alex Carey to throw down the stumps.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It sparked rage in the Lord\u2019s Long Room – and a <\/span>Ben Stokes<\/span> boundary blitz – before England fell to defeat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Now, in this extract from a new book on Bazball co-written by Mail Sport writer and Wisden Editor Lawrence Booth, England firebrand <\/span>Stuart Broad<\/span> reveals exactly what he said to the Australians\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n With England six down and still 178 short, Bairstow had been replaced in the middle by Broad, forming with his captain a challenging combination for the Australians: Ben Stokes, looking to take his anger out on the bowlers, and Broad, the arch Aussie baiter who had never been forgiven for refusing to walk at Trent Bridge in 2013.\u00a0<\/p>\n Now, he had a free hand to wind them up, and the support of nearly 30,000 spectators.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A huge moment of this summer\u2019s Ashes was the bizarre dismissal of Jonny Bairstow (right)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Carey threw the ball back at the stumps when Bairstow had wandered out of his ground<\/p>\n Stuart Broad reveals exactly what he said to the Australians from new book on Bazball<\/p>\n He told Carey: \u2018That\u2019s all you\u2019re ever going to be remembered for, that.\u2019 He repeated the taunt. Carey replied: \u2018Yeah.\u2019 Broad then turned to Cummins: \u2018Literally, that\u2019s the worst thing I\u2019ve ever seen in cricket, and those boos are for you.\u2019\u00a0And he tapped his bat inside the crease at the end of each over, shouting \u2018in\u2019, as if fooling around on the beach.<\/p>\n Three weeks later, Broad leans back in his chair in the Old Trafford media centre and spills out the story as if giving evidence in the witness box, forensically going through every moment. It does not require a Perry Mason cross-examination to elicit the details.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bazball: The Inside Story of a Test Cricket Revolution by Lawrence Booth and Nick Hoult will be published by Bloomsbury on Oct 26<\/p>\n \u2018You could tell there was a bit of anger brewing, even a minute after the decision, which maybe connected with my red mist when I got out there,\u2019 he says. \u2018When I saw it on the screen in our dressing-room, I stood up and thought: \u201cwhat\u2019s happened there?\u201d I thought, \u201cthey\u2019re going to revoke that, surely\u201d \u2013 it was just a given. There\u2019s no way they\u2019ll keep that. And when they did, the crowd booed.<\/p>\n \u2018I wasn\u2019t really that angry. I\u2019ve seen loads of things on the cricket field. But it was a good way of getting involved, creating a bit of chaos and putting doubt in their mind. Because ultimately they\u2019d won the game at that point.\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘So it was to try to take them away from what they were doing, and cause carnage. That was our only way of getting a win \u2013 we needed nearly 200. And it worked. It affected them, and they bowled differently. They were very stand-offish.\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘You could almost see the cogs turning, and they were like: \u201ccould we have done something differently here?\u201d I was saying: \u201cI\u2019ve never heard Lord\u2019s like this \u2013 these are cricket fans, listen to what they think of your decision.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n \u2018I pointed at Pat [Cummins, Australia captain] quite a lot. I was shouting: \u201cYou hear all these boos \u2013 they\u2019re for you.\u201d Again, I didn\u2019t really believe it \u2013 it was just a way of me changing the game up and seeing what would happen.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Australian cricketer\u00a0Usman Khawaja got into a heated argument with a member of the\u00a0Marylebone Cricket Club in Lord’s Long Room after Bairstow’s dismissal<\/p>\n ‘At lunch, Stokesy had got his hundred \u2013 there was a massive cheer when we walked in the Long Room first. Then we turned our corner. I\u2019ve been booed by 50,000 people at the Gabba, and I reckon the Long Room was louder.\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘It was unbelievable. I was like, wow! Then we saw Sky\u2019s most-watched Twitter clip ever: the members having a go at the Aussies. I couldn\u2019t hear what they were saying \u2013 the boos drowned it out. I\u2019d never heard boos like that.\u2019<\/p>\n Was there tension in the players\u2019 dining-room? \u2018I wasn\u2019t there, because I was batting, but I\u2019ve heard about it. The awkward thing about lunch is you\u2019ve got a table where England sit, then a little gap, then a table where the Aussies sit.\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘In the middle, there\u2019s a TV on the wall. They were obviously showing it on Sky. All the players were watching it, including Jonny. He hadn\u2019t been up for lunch all week \u2013 he always has it in his spot in the dressing-room. But he went up that day to see what was going on.<\/p>\n \u2018I think Zak [Crawley] was\u2026 not winding Jonny up, but going: \u201cI can\u2019t believe they\u2019ve done that. They can\u2019t be happy with that.\u201d I think he said: \u201cYou should ask them if they\u2019re happy with that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘Within point five of a second, Jonny says: \u201cYou happy with that, lads?\u201d They were like: \u201cYeah, pretty happy.\u201d But the members were lined up all the way from their changing-room to the lunch room as well. They must have thought: \u201chave we got this one slightly wrong, maybe?\u201d<\/p>\n Before lunch, Stokes moved to his hundred with three successive pulls for six off Cameron Green. After it, he hit the second ball, from Hazlewood, for six more, this time down the ground.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Broad claimed he’s ‘never heard boos like that’ as the Long Room turned on the Australians<\/p>\n ‘Smith dropped him in the same over at deep backward square on 114, but he kept hitting out, even with nine on the fence. And while Broad was busy annoying the Australians, Stokes preferred a menacing silence.<\/p>\n \u2018He didn\u2019t say a word,\u2019 says Broad. \u2018He was revving me up. I was saying: \u201cDo you think I\u2019ve got to calm down here, Stokesy?\u201d He said: \u201cNo, keep going. I think they\u2019re properly rattled.\u201d The Aussies weren\u2019t talking to each other. They were just turning round and bowling. I was just being that facetious prat that I turn into on the odd occasion.<\/p>\n \u2018[Josh] Hazlewood was bowling into the wind with the short boundary, so I said to him: \u201cIt\u2019s nice the captain bowling you at this end, isn\u2019t it? Bet he\u2019ll drop you next week. He\u2019ll bowl that end, and you\u2019ll get dropped. I promise you. You watch.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘[Mitchell] Starc told me to eff off at one stage. It was me in red-mist, competitive mode.\u2019<\/p>\n Bazball: The Inside Story of a Test Cricket Revolution by Lawrence Booth and Nick Hoult will be published by Bloomsbury on October 26<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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