"I don't think it was against the spirit of the game at all" Hesson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇦🇺 | No Boundaries 🏏

Join Laura McGoldrick, Mike Hesson and former BLACKCAP Craig McMillan as they unpack that dramatic Ashes test at Lord's
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[@peterfan8650]

Here are some parts of the THE PREAMBLE - THE SPIRIT OF CRICKET from the MCC Laws of Cricket. - Accept the umpire’s decision. - Show self-discipline, even when things go against you - Congratulate the opposition on their successes. In the spirit of Cricket - Stokes should have just congratulated the Aussie Team for successfully getting Johnny out within the MCC Laws of Cricket. To whinge and whine that he would have done something different is not in the Spirirt of Cricket at all according to the pre-amble. In fact the whole English Crowd & the MCC members do not understand what the spirit of Cricket is. Accept the Umps decision, keep your mouth shut & move on. It's basically written in Black & White.

[@carlredfern8067]

yeah their arrogance and poor sportsmanship is extraordinary

[@empire2222]

Remember world cup 19 final against New Zealand, where was spirit of cricket then.

[@aawe1]

In the spirit of the game you'd think they would have shared the trophy with the New Zealand side.

[@dailylifeactivities472]

@@aawe1no, they should withdraw 5 runs that they got from overthrown

[@peterdurkin3644]

O you accepted the Aussies were playing fairly and within the spiriit of this game then suggested that a world Cup victory should have been shared??? Why???

[@empire2222]

Rules are rules bro.

[@billy4eyes512]

England doesn’t have the quality bowling attack that Australian have, especially on the flat wickets ordered by Stokes and McCullum.

[@sujithsantosh3101]

Exactly... James Anderson's remark on pitch justifies their attitude; only like green carpet pitches with cloud cover. You can't get the perfect bowling conditions all the time.

[@sharonmercer3549]

That’s why they play this so called bazball. It gives your bowlers more time to get the opposition out. They need it as they aren’t as good.

[@paulk756]

Think they can slog their way to Ashes triumph. Might work against the minnows. Welcome to the big boys game...

[@bhav7179]

They can match the bowling if they have Wood, Tongue, Broad in the same team.

[@rohanmarkjay]

Everytime they go to Australia they are trashed 4 or 5 nil. They don't even try to respect the ashes and give it their all in Australia. They meekly turn up and get trashed. Australia on the other hand when they go to England give it their all and have a real go. This shows great respect for Cricket, The spirit of Cricket and the Ashes from Australia. Australia may lose in England but they are always close to winning. Compare that to England's pathetic attempts down under. Its England that disrespect the spirit and the sport of Cricket not Australia.

[@sjmoss1978]

Baz and Bairstow both have enriched history with challenging the spirit of the game. Those in glass houses. Stay in your crease, and this isnt an issue. Just sour grapes from the English fans. Maybe they familiarise themselves with some of their english teams efforts in the past.....

[@conradsaripalli6088]

As an England fan I agree 👍🏼

[@david6294]

Carey had thrown it before Bairstow left the crease. And the inventors of "Bodyline" talking "The Spirit of the Game" is hypocrisy of the highest order.

[@knight2425]

You forgot about Broad opening his mouth also when he himself decided to stand his ground when he knocked the ball to Clark a few years back 😂😂😂

[@namrepusprime6793]

Ball was still in play. Fair dismissal.

[@kevincrouch3956]

What is against the 'spirit of the game', is not accepting the umpires decision and carrying on like a spoiled child- what losers the English cricket team are, both on and off the pitch.

[@heretichello8253]

Yeah they don't have any problem with winning 2019 world cup on boundary count even after they got 6 runs due to same technical rules. England cry about spirit of cricket when they are at the receiving end of it. If they care about Spirit of cricket then they should share 2019 World Cup with New Zealand. 😂

[@ArifKhan-vh2gx]

If England had done it they would have said " brilliant awareness"

[@vincee1652]

They did it without success though!

[@nicfreedman9873]

They’ve done it and said just that before

[@XaviRonaldo0]

If Kiwis side with Australia you know we were in the right. I think all the poms are angry at the wrong target. They should angry at Bairstow. Absolute boneheaded play and he's been atrocious behind the stumps. I know he keeps his place in the side due to his batting but surely they need a better keeper

[@mcpanorama]

Australia won fair and square, according to this England supporter. England have been very good but not quite good enough, and in an Ashes match, margins can make all the difference.

[@ashleyleboydre7751]

Too bad many don't have the sportsmanship you display.

[@Brosef1974]

Well said

[@Imcrazyfornaruto]

I have heard so many English fans actually calling this incident exactly what it is ,, it was a brain fade by bairstow , that’s it ,, it seems like only some elitists have problem with that dismissal ,, it’s not a preferred way of dismissal but it can never be called something against spirit of cricket

[@pjwo383]

Broad's behaviour encouraged that crowd to carry on and the subsequent comments by Captain and coach didn't help the situation. These sooks need to think hard about what the spirit of the game really means.

[@aenohesa9997]

the only thing that constitutes following the "spirit of the game" is - "All umpire decisions will be accepted". Plus England wouldn't know the spirit of cricket if it bit them on the nose....bowling 4 bouncers to Lyon who was literally on one leg...Bairstow tried and failed to do the same thing to Marnus Labuschagne on day 3? England took the extra runs to steal the WC from NZ...DeGronholmme was run out similarly last year...When Sidebottom ran into Elliot and he was run out they didn't call him back...England is the petulant child of the world - worst fans in the game.

[@Snappernose]

Well said couldn’t agree more..

[@maxinetaylor5141]

@@Snappernose PURE GOLD!!!

[@Kittz1301]

I wish I could LOVE this comment 1000times!!! ABSOLUTE GOLD!!!!!

[@C.J.M..]

If Alex Carey were British he might be up for an MBE or OBE: see dirt-in-the-pocket-ball-tampering (English captain!!) Michael Atherton (MBE), Murray mint-shining Trescothick (MBE), boot-spike-scuffing Broad (MBE) and Anderson (OBE) (also dig-your-nail-into-the-cut-up-section-of-the-ball-Anderson).

[@pitolhead6381]

Australia won. Fair and square. It's a competitive game not a charity match.

[@shubhamgaur7296]

​@tytxlx65032 to 3 billion people across the world

[@wyattfamily8997]

Amazing how Bairstow has been attempting to do just that to Australian batsman ( with poor aim), and when Australia does it successfully, with better aim, the whining Poms declare it as "not in the spirit of the game", all this after ruling a genuine catch from Starc as "not out" because after catching the ball he dared to put his ball hand on the ground as he slid across the ground, then assaulting the Aussies as they left the ground. The very definition of bad sports.

[@joedennehy386]

When Ollie Pope ran out Colin DeGrandhome last year under identical circumstances, we all said silly old Colin. Such hypocrisy

[@user-lw1cd8gt7y]

Naa that wasn't same.... colin didnt know where was the ball and he took two steps to take an advantage but got out... But I agree what carey did was right

[@raf4992]

Rubbish... CDG was initially looking at the possibility of a run. This was totally different.

[@heretichello8253]

​@@raf4992Objectively no difference. Two batters outside their crease when ball was still alive. 🤷🏻

[@mickshepherd9329]

@@raf4992 Not the wicket keepers job to read the batters mind to guess if he is going to go for a run or not.We won.2 up.End of story.Dry your tears and get out of the cry cupboard.We remember 'bodyline'.Just saying sooks.

[@tesseract4056]

​@@user-lw1cd8gt7yBut Bairstow did NOT turn around until the stumps were off. I didn't know he had eyes in the back of his head😂

[@richposports7030]

In war, you done give away all your tactics and impromptu insights. Well played Carey. Excess short stuff by England to bore the crowd and batsmen...then England being 188-1 and throwing wickets away with baseball shots...that helped cost them!😊

[@jeffmclaren7789]

Great to hear some neutral comments relating to AUS V ENG. As an Australian I'm a bit over this spirit of cricket. It must be people that have never played. It's the worst sledging sport in the world.

[@user-rv6it8kf4h]

Terrific comments. Well balanced. Great knowledge and understanding of the game. The best I've seen out of the plethora of huff n puff that has taken place about what was a great cricket match.

[@stevemcelmy9354]

'As an Australian I'm a bit over this spirit of cricket.' Yes I think everyone noticed. Bairstow runout, sandpaper gate, underarm delivery, Lillee's aluminium bat, inventing sledging...

[@777greglee]

​ If this action is not in the Spirit of the game, why did Bairstow try it TWICE in the same test? None of the commentators noticed either time he did it. The English team didn't issue an apology either time. Why? Because it's normal! The English only call it a "Spirit of Cricket" issue when they lose.

[@jamesmatheson5115]

If the shoe was on the other foot then it would have been ok, when they talk about the spirit of the game, yes crying about it and making a national issue out of it, yes thats "against the spirit of the game".

[@knight2425]

Shoe was on the other foot a few years back when Broad stood his ground after knicking the ball to Clark, he seems to now talk about sportsmanship 😂😂😂

[@PaulP580]

Australia 2 - Flogs 0 👍 Pommy Hubris - minus infinity 😂

[@JohnMartin-kb6nt]

Why is the Kiwi coach of England carrying on about the spirit of the game when the poms cheated in the World Cup in 2019.

[@vincee1652]

Very very short memories from two kiwis - baz & stroke!

[@knight2425]

Remember when he did the same thing to Paul Collingwood and when he did the same thing to Muttiah Muralitharan when he ran down to celebrate his teammates century? I think McMillian needs to shut up

[@Brosef1974]

Was Broad behaving in the spirit of the game when he carried on like a 5 year old ? It seems the crowd and English players don’t know how to reflect on or control their emotions.

[@justincharles2332]

I am not surprised by the outrage of the English fans and MCC members, because since Brexit, Britain as a whole has become very angry and very anti-foreigner; and very vocally so. Brexit was about Empire v2.0 and British exceptionalism, and having "former colonies" winning is not meant to be part of the new v2 script - especially when Britain was expecting the Commonwealth to support Brexit Britain going forward, seeing as Britain feels the world "owes it" for "civilizing" so much of it. The fact that the Australian trade deal has been such a humiliation, further compounds the matter of feeling disrespected by the world... Britain has lost so much prestige and experienced such catastrophic humiliation due to the disaster of Brexit, that it is just lashing out at anyone or anything that is seen to be doing better than Britain, whether it be Germans getting sun-loungers ahead of them in Spain, or beating Britain / England at cricket etc. Also, what is more British / English than cricket? Britain / England cannot deal with the fact that it is in decline and a waning power across most aspects of life from big stuff to the little stuff like cricket - that is why the MCC's "gentlemen" members were so so febrile etc. they sadly embody the new found spirit and voice of Brexit Britain...

[@SaltBushCity]

Interesting 👍. I wondered how things were post Brexit You in Britain?

[@justincharles2332]

@@SaltBushCity I am based in the UK (Midlands), but took a contract out in Africa for 6 months, but might role it for another 6 months or possibly even another year - if the customer is agreeable etc. - I needed some sunshine - LOL! People are just so angry in the UK because of how bad things are, especially as the cost of living is hurting so much - and that has been exacerbated exponentially by Brexit. They even electronically security tag cheese (even the small 300g blocks) in the stores now to prevent theft - even the big 4/5 shops/retailers do this! For me it is the increase in road rage that is just staggering, and probably the most revealing, as I do quite a long commute (over 100 miles each way) - it wasn't like this before Brexit, but now people get set off by the slightest thing... I also stopped going into the town /village centre in last year and a half or so, because people are having punch-ups - even a Monday evening is not safe! Sadly, the anger and stress levels are off the scale...

[@kwoylee5617]

Excellent summary. I got a similar impression from the absolutely insane forelock-tugging around the Queen's funeral ("this is the most important event in world history" said one English commentator) and the subsequent coronation of Charles ("no one does pomp and pageantry like us")... and then getting angry with the world for finding it anachronistic. The obsession with slagging off Meghan Markle for not wanting to stay in a country where she was abused on a daily basis... the sneering at Americans as uncouth while cherry-picking from your own culture (*cough* football hooliganism, The Sun, Katie Price *cough*)... Wheeling out Jeremy Clarkson and Piers Morgan to sneer at brown people, women and Johnny Foreigner.. Cutting economic ties with Commonwealth countries in 1971, then expecting them to welcome you with open arms 50 years later... Liz Truss - who'd never negotiated a trade agreement in her life - having the hide to sneer to UK newspapers that poor unsophisticated Australia "was out of their depth" - when dealing with the UK. It all points to myopic nostalgia for some mythical past when the English felt that they ruled the roost, and "How dare those upstart colonials beat us by following the rules of the game WE invented?"

[@markbutler5382]

He (Bairstow) wasn't going forward to talk to his partner because his Captain (Stokes) had his back turning to the bowling crease

[@user-kn8un4ru8p]

Correct, Ben Stokes walked back into his crease, as Bairstow walked towards him. One player thought the ball was still alive and the other thought the ball was dead. Well done Ben Stokes.

[@EngiocGames]

Aussie here, and I admit didn't even think about that point you made re Stokes, why did it take this incident to get him fired up enough to bat like that, why wasn't he batting like that in their first innings, and the first test, bit odd. I love him as a player and it was a great innings to watch, but he really needed to do that earlier in the series.

[@sandwichman100]

had carey not taken the ball cleanly and it had slipped away from him some distance i would imagine stokes would have called for a quick single and rightly so not a dead ball

[@ThewaffleFlipper]

Broad is a cheat hitting to firts slip and not walking

[@remembertochangename3557]

baz has not wanted to have a beer with the aussies since starc owned him in the WC final

[@m0e679]

Ashes needed this. This type of drama really builds a rivalry.

[@bradysylvester4371]

Honestly bazball mode of cricket may work against teams who aren't as good as them and in their own home conditions. But against the best team in the world...... No chance

[@sdpearshaped831]

Spirit of cricket doesn't actually say anything on this matter. What it does say is that the umpires decision must be respected. On that England have failed, so it is they, not Australia who have not played in the spirit of cricket.

[@MagpiePete]

That Carey underarm was as good as Trevor Chappell's.

[@rocknral]

It was better mate. It was against England and not you kiwis, and it got a wicket. Winner winner, chicken dinner. 😂

[@knight2425]

It was brilliant because it did what Bairstow tried himself in both tests

[@XaviRonaldo0]

You Kiwis still whinging about that? That was 43 years ago. Get over it. I agree it was a disgraceful act but most fans today weren't even born yet

[@brent1252]

​@@XaviRonaldo0kiwis wud be lost without that they whinged bout that for years they needed that to happen to indulge there petty hatred

[@davidprosser457]

@@XaviRonaldo0 Done a survey have ya!?

[@leighwest5564]

She was literally glued to the test match. "Literally"??? That must have been uncomfortable.

[@david6294]

😂

[@MrRecrute]

@tytxlx6503, she should have said metaphorically.

[@rocknral]

"Literally" is the most over used word in modern language. I have brought this to the attention of literally millions of people.

[@XaviRonaldo0]

​@@rocknralif I've told you once I've told you a million times...don't exaggerate

[@rocknral]

The spirit of cricket is not in disagreement with the laws. The spirit is : congratulations to an opponent for a100, or a great bowling performance. Or A guard is honour for a retiring great. Or giving public praise to an opponent. Consolation to an opponent for failure, having a beer with your adversary, win loose or draw.... That's the "spirit of the game". Its got nothing to do with playing within the rules, and finding your opponent's weaknesses and trying the 1% ers.

[@woopimagpie]

*Lose, not "loose". Loose is the opposite of tight, or what you do with an arrow in archery.

[@stuartcorlett5959]

@@woopimagpieCollywobbles not Collingwood, collywobbles is when they lose the GF twice to Brisbane

[@woopimagpie]

@@stuartcorlett5959 Sorry, I have no affinity with Collingwood whatsoever. I'm not even in the same state. 8 years in WIRES and a lot of experience with corvids and similar has led me to being a fan of the bird. My handle is a combination of the nickname of the town where I live and my own nickname. I don't even follow any football codes except maybe the Rugby occasionally.

[@stucorlett4689]

@@woopimagpie Apologies, thought you were a AFL Magpie fan.

[@Snappernose]

Bowling short pitch deliveries at Lyon on one leg? Spirit of the game stuff🤷‍♂️

[@keithlawrence5605]

The fact is if the poms had done that would have been a brilliant manoeuvre

[@sujithsantosh3101]

Actually this whole JB runout incident is blow out of proportion to hide the Englands weakness ala to blame Australia and downplay their superiority in both matches concluded. English have been outplayed in key moments and they can't accept that so trying to create a cheap image. Fact is Eng is long way away from winning Ashes for sometime now, Aus challenge them and beat them at home easily and when they tour UK they have played well.

[@richposports7030]

WI need a revamp. Not easy. Salutes to legends of the game, from Sir Clive to Sir Viv...😊❤

[@XaviRonaldo0]

It's a sad day for cricket when the WI doesn't play in a world cup. Even more sad is I don't think they'll get back to their former glory ever

[@laurak1545]

Stokes: 'It was out but I'm gonna call the Aussies cheats anyway.' Encouraging crowd abuse against a visiting team = disgraceful and unsportsmanlike

[@user-yl1qt4fp6i]

Macca makes many great points here...especially about pressure!

[@markagerman1223]

Stuart Broad, the biggest hypocrite in world cricket

[@zatgeye7320]

I personally think it’s weird for an antipodean to ever support the poms over an ANZAC. I always support the kiwis unless they are playing the aussies.

[@scarmody9200]

Totally agree. As an Aussie resident, born in NZ & total AB fan - Cannot undertand the comment "we love to hate Aussies". Aussies always gun for Kiwis when Aust is not playing.

[@zatgeye7320]

@@scarmody9200 that was the comment that struck me as odd. I mean it’s all in jest. It’s sport. But I always support our neighbours. Similar with the AFL. I support the Adelaide Crows. But will always support Port Adelaide Power against anyone else.

[@XaviRonaldo0]

​@@zatgeye7320it's all jealousy

[@kwoylee5617]

Same. If it's not Australia playing, we always support the Kiwis - especially against the English. We have a shared history as Antipodean cannon fodder.

[@thatsbollox]

It masks the fact Bairstow has been awful. Seriously awful in both tests. In contrast that Oz w/keeper has been brilliant and is killing them. Bairstow even tried the exact same stumping in the first innings on Labushagne, and missed. Some simple hypocrisy going on. Excellent w/keeping. Looks wintery and chilly where Mike Hesson is standing.

[@malcolmmcdonald1885]

Stokes' was a mighty innings. But leadership is not about always being the hero...true leadership is unleashing the hero is others

[@joycie014]

Bairstow was just one wicket, there were nine others. What happened with the other batsmen, other than Stokes? England just weren’t good enough.

[@monashsq4001]

So the English propose outlawing stumpings that are not executed by the keeper right up at the stumps. This is ridiculous it was a standard stumping.

[@baldwinfernandes]

McMillian is wrong about the 'first time' Overton in an t20 game caught the same catch the same way and was given out. The spirit of the game is playing in the law. Bairstow is an idiot trying to take advantage, he did not value his wicket.

[@brentonl1746]

Think they need to change the Urn to a big Dummy if the English win.

[@stevepygram6706]

It's all to easy, Carey caught the ball, Bairstow wonder out of his crease when over wasn't called, Third ump said out. So you poms have a go at the 3rd ump

[@MuhammadHafeez-wx5pr]

I am muhammad hafeez from Pakistan. it is sure that bairstow was out as per ICC laws. law is the superior than anything. Many\Thanks

[@TheMawso]

Hesson is kidding himself saying that England will be able to get after Todd Murphy they might get away with some shots....but Murph is a more aggressive/consistent spinner than Lyon

[@steveblake6877]

It’s just so nice to see the Brits now acting in the spirit of the game!!! Abuse. Foul mouthed attacks. Threats against players family members. Players acting like complete thugs. Crowds out of control. Yep! That’s their version of the spirit of the game.

[@thomasluke980]

Why do losers always talk about the “spirit of the game” ?

[@bretthannan200]

Stop smoking the weed

[@jetpark3743]

So all Aussies and British are losers?

[@thomasluke980]

@@bretthannan200 what a silly comment ! I’m never going to stop 😂

[@ozfrancis2445]

Stuart Broad is an errogant and immature person. Just accept that Australia was a little better than England in the first two tests. If England continue to carry on and be a bad loser, they might lose the series 5 to nil.

[@marioslider6337]

Nobody should listen to Broad, he nicked the biggest slip catch and didn't walk.

[@SaltBushCity]

As an Aussie I felt similarly to how I felt watching the perfectly legal underarm delivery as a kid. I know that we would complain bitterly if roles were reversed.

[@jimmyriddle5246]

They don't get called whinging poms for nothing!

[@Painter19]

There's no such thing as the spirit of cricket, it's a fallacy. Ever since WG Grace, there's been gamesmanship, cheating, and finding any way to win. That's just the nature of the game.

[@XaviRonaldo0]

As an Aussie I still think that underarm ball was a disgrace. Definitely against any spirit of the game if it exists

[@RayK236]

No issues here. Well played Australia. The end.

[@andresdeks]

South Africans ALWAYS follow the Spirits at the Games, Castle Corner and many other Spirits are an important part of the supporters game😂

[@callofduty3807]

I am honestly more confused at the fact that NZs say they love to hate Australia and yet are happy to use our slang 🤔🤔🤔

[@Sothpawman]

England love to to bring up the small few victories they've had against Aus, ALL THE TIME. Imagine if Aus bragged as much about their wins over England as England does. Its really pathetic, and proves an inferiority complex that England cricket has toward Aus cricket.

[@user-vn7rh3yz7c]

All the spin collapses when you see the footage of Jonny Bairstow's similar stumping of Samit Patel in 2014 while playing for Yorkshire against Nottinghamshire. Jonny is exposed as a complete hypocrite.

[@thatguygb7148]

Make that Starc.

[@grantbriggs3777]

I'm wondering if you join the MCC do they give you a list of rules as a member your suppose to abide by and if so is one of the rules a behavioral standards expected of all members when interacting with players from both teams e.g. treat all players with respect & courtesy when inside the members pavilion

[@dmr6712]

Professional highly paid sportspeople are not paid to play within the spirit of the game, they are paid to play and win the game within the RULES and also push the rules to the limits. It is naïve to think that any professional player will put their position and income into jeopardy for some sort of airy nicety that the losers refer to as "the spirit of the game" . As for the Kiwi bloke supporting England,, suffer in your Bazball jocks .

[@joeldoughty2371]

Why are you kiwis hoping England beats Australia?? And also the lady saying New Zealand loves to hate Australia..we are the Anzacs's and neighbours.. when the kiwis played england in the one day world cup final a couple of years ago , every aussie to a man was death riding the poms...in both rugby codes or any sport really, im certain most Aussies would always support the kiwis over the poms..I no I certainly would...i no the pommy coach is a kiwi maybe that's got something to do with it.. do all kiwis love to hate Australia in sport and in general??

[@timblizzard4226]

I'm not sure why they hate us so much. We certainly don't hate NZ in the same way. Little brother syndrome perhaps.

[@user-rv6it8kf4h]

Little brother syndrome ....

[@kwoylee5617]

It's disturbing that so many Kiwis claim they "hate" Australia and that we have some great sporting rivalry. That's news to us. Most Aussies couldn't care less about Rugby and support the Kiwis (second only to Australia) when it comes to any other sporting competition.

[@kenjones6441]

Neither was body line then.

[@Mezmarr]

All I ever see from England is whinging in these test matches.

[@Nawanda]

They are laws...not rules.

[@texastexas4541]

Try to be fair and focus on the spirit of game to help England win at least one game in this series. Our Lord Jesus always put more emphasis on empathy and love; it is time for all of us now to show some kindness and love for the weak ones.

[@dadudadu8158]

regarding catch icc should make it clear once your hand touches ground with ball. in your hand not out.period.

[@swatir2190]

"You love to hate them?" A bit bigoted, aren't we?

[@vimalrajkr]

Ahhh your age old stereotype ....Winjin' Poms....school boy error from Baristow and sharp piece of skill from Alex Carey..A bit rich coming from Baz with regards to the wicket

[@thatguygb7148]

Start completed catch at around knee height. He then sought to brace himself, and it was natural to do this palms down. This fingers under the ball business is all about catches taken at turf-top level. Not relevant in this case.

[@IgshaanBarnes-pk5uo]

Bowl, run me out, catch me ,or lbw me out , give me out if I hit my wicket, but don't run me out if I'm not going for run or hit ball mis and fall over. I hope the same thing happens in future to the same Aussies and hear how they will cry.

[@henryburton6529]

SHOCK: New Zealander takes ridiculous position because it means England are wrong. Brilliant. This remind me of 2019 World Cup when the journo said before the semi that every All Blacks player was better than his English counterpart.

[@shakenbake8987]

I saw the headline and thought why would you believe that.. then I checked the channel name and knew why.. Aussie's lil brother

[@timblizzard4226]

Are you kidding me? Kiwi's hate Australia mate. You couldn't get a more hostile place for Australian sport other than England.

[@addamr2052]

The Poms are just milking the great spirit of the game thing as nothing more then a ploy to unsettle the Australians for the third test . Nobody can see it and so far it seems to be working .

[@seshquatch]

Lol all they’re doing is firing the Aussies up even more while having a sook, if that’s their “ploy” it’s having quite the opposite effect.

[@addamr2052]

We'll soon see.

[@arvindhmani06]

@@addamr2052That McGrath 5-0 prediction seems to be coming to fruition. We will soon see indeed.

[@kwoylee5617]

It's not unsettling anyone. They look pathetic and unsportsmanlike.

[@offred6013]

ASHWIN is laughing somewhere in the corner.

[@teejayhaych149]

So i guess england think using sweets, vaseline and dirt to alter the ball is within the spirit of the game do they?? People in glass houses...

[@crcrrajesh2008]

I always go back to how Stroke has stolen 4 runs

[@tommymcculloch8788]

Little cry babies 😢😢😢😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@davidharrison3129]

I m amazed that you even support England after they cheated you out of the World Cup. I always have supported NZ as my second team against everyone but Oz we two little countries battl

[@JGold-cu5mo]

* "Champing at the bit"

[@letstalk3265]

A Kiwi supporting England. Never ever thought that would be the case. Whenever it's not Australia playing the Poms but the Kiwi's in any sport, we support you guys 100%. Against SAfrica, Kiwi's 100%. Never ever want to see the Poms win anything, SAfrica anything, as on the homefront NSW in any sport.

[@timblizzard4226]

They hate us bro. I lived in NZ for a while and I was kind of shocked by the anti-Australianism there. I don't really understand why. I guess its the narcissism of small differences.

[@markjones464]

England are geting side tracked The Coach Failed he did not pick Up on Bairstow Habit , Australia Did , because your caught up in The Romance of Cricket , the Spirt Of rhe Game , Ps No your Rules ,

[@jeffreyroberts7438]

Australia won, get on with it and stop whimpering. Personally, I like the Aussie approach. Spirit of the game, laughable. It’s all about winning!

[@edfrench4053]

Look, it's within the rules, so just take it and then honestly admit you don't really care how you win as long as you win.

[@christait50]

Shes gorgeous

[@alexjason9086]

😅😅😅

[@dynomiterecords4348]

Anderson is just too old. Fast bowlers retire well before 40 for a reason.

[@bobbythomas5357]

Exteent

[@johnstanleyrandolph3586]

Cary didn't throw the ball yet untill johnny walk away from the crease than cary stumped Johnny that's cheating to win that's not the spirit of the game umpire was not concentrating on the game not even looking what has happened .

[@TheMawso]

the West Indies will struggle as they don't have the money to pay their best players...their best players have become T20 wanderers, as they will earn more money from the IPL, BBL or other tournaments

[@stephengreen3108]

Spirit of the game is about competing they tried sour grapes.

[@phillipallaway7306]

Absolute joke for Baz to plead the "spirit of game" . Hypocrite extraordinaire

[@shancharan7834]

some one is blah blah

[@zabaleta66]

Someone do something about this woman's hair!