The veteran Australian cricketers, Steve Smith and David Warner made their comeback to international cricket in the longest format of the game during The Ashes 2019 in England after facing the one-year ban for the ball-tampering scandal. There is no denying the fact that England was the most robust place for them to make a comeback as the English fans made sure that make the trip daunting for the Australia stars.
The English fans have always known to be ruthless, and they left no stone unturned while taking some digs at Smith and Warner. And new footage released by the Cricket Australia (CA) on Tuesday has shown just how tough things were for the two in England. A new trailer for Amazon’s upcoming documentary The Test shows how England fans hurled abuse at the team bus during the first Test at Edgbaston, which Australia won by 251 runs.
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In the video, England fans can be heard chanting “cheat, cheat, cheat” as the Australians left the Birmingham ground. That chant was then followed by a more pointed one at Smith, Warner, and Cameron Bancroft. The group of fans chants referring to the teary apologies from Smith, Warner, and Bancroft, they said, “Cry on the telly, we saw you cry on the telly.”
Here is the footage released by Cricket Australia:
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The trailer also showed how calmy the Australian players handled the abuse that was coming their way. Smith, Warner, and others kept their emotions under control and, at times, even played along with the fans’ abuse. Players can be seen in the trailer clapping along to chants, while Warner even toots the bus horn and offers a royal wave.
“They’re all grown men,” says one player, before a laughing Smith adds: “I know, they’re such children!” The head coach Justin Langer was heard saying, “There’s the booing but the worst thing was when we got on the bus at the end of each day’s play. Just the abuse. By the end of it, they decide to laugh in the face of it and that takes immense courage.”
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Australia captain Tim Paine also spoke about the England fans’ behavior and how his team chose to take it.
Paine said, “Yeah, that’s just all part of trying to embrace it. We just sort of went with it. People were everywhere on the street. That’s just how Edgbaston was. It was a really aggressive place.”
