Just Stop Oil protestors on Wednesday morning threatened to wreak havoc on the Second Ashes Test at Lord’s, with only vital interventions from England and Australia players preventing damage to the playing surface.
England wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow tackled one of two demonstrators who made it onto the outfield, carrying the pitch-invader all the way to the boundary rope, while Ben Stokes and Australian batter David Warner crucially prevented the second from reaching the square with the group’s trademark orange dye before stewards intervened.
