Former Australia coach Justin Langer has joined his former teammates Matthew Hayden and Ricky Ponting has stepped up his disagreement with England seamer Ollie Robinson by calling him “foolish.”
Robinson has been on the centerstage within the first Take a look at the place he had a run-in with Usman Khawaja, by which he had instructed him “f**okay off, you f***ing prick” after bowling him for 141 within the first innings. Within the second innings James Anderson needed to pull Robinson away from one other confrontation with Khawaja, who scored a feisty 65.
Talking after the incident, Robinson singled out Ponting, and mentioned “We’ve all seen Ricky Ponting and different Aussies do the identical to us, and simply because the shoe is on the opposite foot it’s not obtained nicely.”
In his column for The Telegraph, Langer wrote Robinson was asking for hassle.
“Once I woke as much as the press, my eyebrows have been raised at greater than the Khawaja spat. I grinned, shook my head and thought ‘foolish boy’. I had a fairly good thought what was going to occur subsequent,” he wrote.
“Sledge ex-captain Ponting, the much-loved little grasp of Australia, and there may be all the time going to be a backlash. You’re taking up a complete nation right here.”
“It’s OK to have a chat, however be sure to again it up. A send-off, a crack at a legend and a prediction of “three No 11’s” when those self same ‘bunnies’ hit the successful runs. Junk-yard canine are inclined to bark,” he added.
Langer’s former opening companion Matthew Hayden has described Robinsin as a “forgettable cricketer”, and recommended that his opinions weren’t consistent with his abilities.
“He’s a quick bowler that’s bowling 124kph nude nuts and he’s bought a mouth from the south,” Hayden instructed SEN Radio in Australia. “Somebody like him, you may simply go, ‘Brother, I’m coming at ya’. Davey Warner can do this, proper. He can simply say, ‘You’re bowling 120′.”
Former Australia captain, Ricky Ponting additionally took goal at Robinson.
“This England cricket workforce hasn’t performed towards Australia, they usually’ll discover out fairly shortly what taking part in Ashes cricket and taking part in towards a great Australian cricket workforce is all about,” Ponting mentioned on an ICC podcast.
“And if Robinson hasn’t realized that already after final week, then he’s a gradual learner.”