New cricket documentary could re-ignite Ashes hostilities after ‘unacceptable’ scenes

The Australian cricket team has been thanked for its “generous response” to the abuse committed in the Lord’s Long Room according to the controversial Jonny Bairstow punches – but a new documentary could soon bring new drama. MCC Chairman Bruce Carnegie-Brown has spoken for the first time since then members of his organization angrily confronted Australian players as they moved off the ground and through the Long Room for lunch, shortly after Bairstow’s dismissal in the second Ashes Test.

A subsequent investigation resulted in the suspension of two members and a lifetime ban. The incident threatens to end the decades-long tradition of players walking through the Long Room during game breaks, within easy reach of members, and back to their locker rooms.

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“Yes, I was shocked. It is extraordinary that the issue was about the spirit of cricket. We are hardly exemplars of the spirit of cricket when we abuse cricketers in the pavilion,” Carnegie-Brown told the British newspaper. Daily telegram.

‘Being in the Long Room is one of the great privileges. That (the closure to members) is exactly the potential threat if that behavior occurs again. The Australians were extremely generous in their response to that, but I would certainly say we are too. in the last chance salon about that.

“What we’re trying to do is remind members of the standards we expect. It makes it clear that this behavior is unacceptable. We will review everything before the 2024 season to make sure we have all our protocols in place.”

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Cricket Australia has accepted the MCC’s apology and applauded the action taken against those responsible for the abuse, but the matter may not end there. MCC officials are privately concerned that the issue could come to the boil again when Amazon Prime releases its fly-on-the-wall documentary – ‘the Test’ – centering on the Ashes series.

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The camera crew was given access rights to all areas and may reveal new details about the Lord’s incident as it airs. “Film crews followed the Australian team and MCC is concerned that the players may not have been as diplomatic as their bosses,” the spokesperson said. Telegraph wrote.

Australia and England will come face to face for the first time since that bitter series when they meet in a crucial World Cup match in Ahmedabad on Saturday. Players from both sides insist there will be no lingering animosity. Defeat will end any slim hopes England, the defending champions, have of reaching the last four.

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