Ollie Robinson has defended his sweary send-off to Usman Khawaja, who scored 141 of Australia’s first-innings 386 on Sunday and played so well “it felt like we were never going to get him out”, telling his critics: “I don’t really care how it was perceived – it’s the Ashes, it’s professional sport, if you can’t handle that what can you handle?”
Khawaja’s innings was finally ended when Robinson produced a yorker that took out off-stump, leading to an emotional celebration in which he yelled: “Fuck off you fucking prick.”
