Aussie TV commentators Mark Taylor and Mel Jones can have safety workers with them when the Third Ashes Test begins on Thursday night time (AEST).
On the identical day it was revealed the Aussie group has referred to as in further safety for the touring social gathering’s households, it has come to mild that the Aussie duo may also be protected by bodyguards throughout their work with Sky Sports throughout the Test on the notoriously rowdy Headingley Cricket Ground in Leeds.
According to The Daily Mail, Sky Sports made its personal name to bolster its safety workers because of the ugly second Ricky Ponting was verbally attacked by spectators throughout a phase he did for Sky Sports throughout the Second Test at Lord’s.
Ponting lightheartedly quipped he might have needed to conceal behind the broadcasting “cart” which carried an enormous display TV backdrop when followers have been heard yelling at him throughout a reside phase filmed on the boundary at Lord’s.
The report additionally reveals Ponting is not going to be in attendance on the Third Test and can as a substitute be on a scheduled household vacation in France — booked effectively earlier than the beginning of the collection.
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Taylor and Jones would be the highest profile Aussie commentators that will probably be on the bottom in Leeds with the collection already at boiling level.
England followers have made no try to cover plans to verbally assault the Aussie group when it’s out on the sector after the Ashes rivalry exploded in controversy throughout the closing day of the Second Test.
Alex Carey’s stumping of England’s Jonny Bairstow, when Carey fielded the ball and threw it again on the stumps as Bairstow left his crease earlier than the ball was thought-about lifeless, has set the stage for one of the heated checks in latest reminiscence
The incident noticed the gang erupt and chant “same old Aussies, always cheating” with the subject “cheating” trending on social media.
The MCC members within the famed Lord’s Long Room additionally got here beneath fireplace for his or her abuse of the Aussie group as the edges left the sector for lunch.
But it didn’t end there with the household of the touring social gathering additionally copping abuse.
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The Australian’s Peter Lalor reported the group had requested the additional measures after the abusive followers at Lord’s left one workers member’s 11-year-old son in tears, whereas Steve Smith’s mom was pressured to depart the bottom early.
While they didn’t know she was Smith’s mom, the taunting followers turned on her once they realised she was Australian.
The 11-year-old was equally taunted by followers at Lord’s and was seen later surrounded by members of the group on the balcony.
To add gasoline to the fireplace, the Third Test is happening at Bairstow’s Yorkshire residence floor.
It could also be a great factor Ponting was planning on skipping the Third Test after his feedback about Bairstow’s dismissal carried world wide.
The legendary skipper mentioned on Wednesday Ben Stokes ought to have dealt with his post-match feedback higher after the England captain mentioned he wouldn’t have made the identical determination Aussie captain Pat Cummins made in electing to not withdraw its enchantment of Bairstow’s stumping.
“The two things that separates both of these two captains is that Ben Stokes had about three hours to think about his answer,” Ponting instructed The ICC Review.
“Pat Cummins had about 10 seconds to think about what he was going to do and whether he was going to uphold it (the appeal) or not.
“It‘s pretty easy for Ben at the end (of the match) to sit down and give that point of view. But he was actually out there as the batting captain of his team. He could have asked there and then in the heat of the battle if he was thinking clearly like he said he was three hours later in post-game.
“If he was thinking enough, he would have said that to the umpires, ‘You know, was it over? Had you started to move? Is the ball dead?’ They were the questions that had to be answered then and not at the end of the game when he said it.”
Originally printed as Ponting out of Third Test, TV community’s drastic transfer to guard Aussies
Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au
