Cricket's wicket ways: what the furore over a stumping tells us about Anglo-Australian relations (spoiler: they'll survive)
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Martedì, Luglio 4, 2023
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The already febrile sporting pages of the English press have gone into overdrive about Jonny Bairstow’s controversial dismissal.
Key Points:
- The already febrile sporting pages of the English press have gone into overdrive about Jonny Bairstow’s controversial dismissal.
- The reason this is not just cricket is that the political furore over the Ashes playing out in England expresses old and new elements of the Australia-UK relationship.
- The old elements are that Anglo-Australian rivalries and tensions play out in the safety of social forms understood by both sides, in this case cricket.
- On the Labor left, this has revived memories of the last time Australian and British security was so closely aligned.
- Memories of the disaster at Singapore in 1942, or nuclear testing at Maralinga in the 1950s, don’t bring much comfort.
- The Scots appear to be enjoying the moment and generally support two teams – Scotland, and anyone playing against England.
- The Headingley crowd may still be smarting from the Bairstow incident, and confirmed in their views of how Australians play the game.