Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has ripped into his British counterpart, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak with a cheeky sledge over the present collection scoreline within the Ashes.
Meeting within the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius this week for the 2023 NATO summit, the Prime Minister met individually with a variety of world leaders together with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
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Albanese took to social media to share his dialogue with Sunak.
“I caught up with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to discuss progress with AUKUS, technology transfer and economic challenges, as well as the Australia-UK Free Trade Agreement,” Albanese mentioned.
“And of course we discussed the Ashes.”
Albanese shared a clip of the pair exchanging “gifts” for one another, which turned out to be numerous digs at their respective counterpart’s cricket groups.
Albanese introduced out a sheet of paper that learn “2-1 (Australia-England)”, earlier than Sunak revealed {a photograph} of what seemed to be English celebrations after the Headingley victory.
The Australian Prime Minister then took it a step additional with a TV screenshot of Jonny Bairstow’s now-infamous run out by the hands of Alex Carey at Lord’s, to which Sunak joked “I’m sorry, I didn’t bring my sandpaper with me,” referencing the 2018 ball-tampering saga.
“There’s a crease,” Albanese replied bluntly.
It comes after Sunak made an official assertion on the Bairstow saga after the Lord’s Test, with a spokesperson for Sunak saying he agreed with England captain Ben Stokes that the dismissal wasn’t within the spirit of the sport.
“The prime minister agrees with Ben Stokes who said he simply wouldn’t want to win a game in the manner that Australia did,” the spokesman mentioned.
Asked if he thought Australia had contravened the spirit of cricket, the spokesperson responded: “yes”.
Albanese would go on to tweet and handle Sunak’s remarks.
“Same old Aussies – always winning!” the Prime Minister mentioned in a tweet, invoking cries of English followers at Lord’s that Aussies are “always cheating”.
“I’m proud of our men’s and women’s cricket teams, who have both won their opening two Ashes matches against England.”
The fourth Ashes Test will get underway at Old Trafford on
Originally printed as Anthony Albanese takes cheeky Ashes jab at UK counterpart Rishi Sunak
Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au
