Australia’s cricket team came under fresh attack on Tuesday from a Government minister who said you can’t expect “fair play” from them after the controversial dismissal of Jonny Bairstow.
Veterans affairs minister Johnny Mercer also urged Ben Stokes’s England team to respond to the Aussies’ conduct by giving them a “good pasting” in the 3rd Test at Headingley which starts on Thursday. England batter and wicket keeper Bairstow was stumped in bizarre circumstances on a tense final day of the 2nd Test at Lord’s on Sunday.
