{"id":342039,"date":"2023-10-27T02:40:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T02:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=342039"},"modified":"2023-10-27T04:01:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T04:01:20","slug":"disgrace-cummins-ashes-sledge-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=342039","title":{"rendered":"'Disgrace': Cummins Ashes sledge revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Retired England bowler Stuart Broad<\/a> has once again stoked the Ashes fire, re-living the memories of Alex Carey's ruthless stumping<\/a> of Jonny Bairstow<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Bairstow was punished in the second Ashes<\/a> Test at Lord's for wandering out of his crease before the ball was declared dead, in a dismissal that caused uproar and has continued to spark debate months later. <\/p>\n

Broad was the next batsman to arrive at the crease and has lifted the lid on what occurred during his walk out and in the middle. \ufeff<\/p>\n

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"W\ufeffhat set me off is I walked through the long room … one of the members was looking out the window and turned around to me and goes 'absolute disgrace'," he said on the Up Front podcast. <\/p>\n

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"And I would say mindset's a strength of mine and I'm learned to be very controlled of what I'm doing but that word just turned me into … I just had a red mist for 10 minutes. <\/p>\n

"So I walked past Jonny and normally (as) the out batter you'd go 'what do you think? Is it swinging? How are you feeling?'<\/p>\n

"He was just snorting, staring at the floor like a raging bull, didn't even look at me and that revved me up as well so I was like OK well he's obviously annoyed. <\/p>\n

"So as I'm walking out to Lord's and there's boos going at the Aussies. <\/p>\n

\"Bairstow<\/p>\n

"The captain Pat Cummins<\/a> is coming on to bowl so he's walking towards me to the end of his mark and I just looked at him and said 'you're an absolute disgrace'."<\/p>\n

Cummins then made a reply in reference to Broad's decision not to walk in the 2013 Ashes series despite clearly nicking an Ashton Agar delivering to first slip. \ufeff<\/p>\n

"He said 'oh yeah, you're hardly a upkeep of the spirit of cricket'," Broad recounted.<\/p>\n

"So that upset me a bit."<\/p>\n

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What followed was antics from Broad who continued to stare down Australians as he placed his bat in his crease. <\/p>\n

The England great described his act as "very facetious" while in commentary at the time, Aaron Finch called him a "pork chop"<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\"Broad<\/p>\n

"I had huge regrets about it that night," Broad said of his antics. <\/p>\n

"I was hugely embarrassed about it but I had no real control over what I was doing. <\/p>\n

"There's a moment where silly point and short leg are in with their helmets on and the crowd are signing 'Same old Aussies always cheating' … I was looking at both of them, a yard away. I'm looking at both of them in the eye, just singing 'Same old Aussies always cheating' and they're looking at me as if to say 'what are you doing?'.<\/p>\n

"But the more it went on they just went vacant, they weren't thinking about what they were doing."<\/p>\n

After Bairstow's dismissal, Broad and Stokes put on a partnership of 108 with the latter scoring 155. <\/p>\n

With Stokes departing, England had a chance at 7-301 but ultimately fell short by 43 runs, bowled out for 327.\ufeff<\/p>\n

\"Shades<\/p>\n

\ufeff"They were bowling like (into the) slot to Stokesy and Stokesy came to me and said, 'I'm going to do my thing. I'm not going to talk. If I run, you run, if I run two, if I run two you run two but you keep doing your thing'," Broad explained. <\/p>\n

"And I did. So Pat went over to long-on like way away from me and the crowd are booing him when he walked over and I'm shouting from 60 metres: 'Pat, Pat. All these boos, they're for you mate. All of them, they're for you'.<\/p>\n

"To the extent where I think some of them were just going 'calm down a little bit'. <\/p>\n

"It started off as a red mist and then I tweaked it into an advantage of we've got them by the balls here a little bit. How long can I make this carry on? <\/p>\n

"It made the series, to be honest. We galvanised around it."<\/p>\n

Broad's comments come only a month after Stokes told UK publication The Telegraph: "I made a very conscious effort, once the Ashes was done, to let it be done. I can't say the same about the opposition."\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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