Ollie Robinson: ‘Australia have been unwilling to go toe-to-toe with us’
Ollie Robinson has stepped up his disagreement with Australia’s cricket institution by claiming it’s the guests who should change their methods to maintain up with England’s Bazballers within the second Test at Lord’s, regardless of Australia having taken the sequence lead with their two-wicket win at Edgbaston this week.
Writing in his new column for Wisden.com, Robinson mentioned he was shocked by Australia’s unwillingness “to go toe-to-toe with us”, including that Brendon McCullum, England’s head coach, had instructed the staff in his post-match deal with that they’d made all of the operating within the sport and that “it feels like we’ve won, lads”.
“He just said, “Lads, I’m immensely pleased with the efforts that you have put in, we have made the sport what it was,” Robinson related. “We have been so near pulling off an unbelievable victory. We performed all of the cricket within the sport. If it wasn’t for us, the Australians would not have even had an opportunity to win.”
Robinson added: “We’re making an attempt to create recollections and be that staff that everybody nonetheless speaks about in 20-30 years’ time. We’ve entertained the world, and we have put the Aussies on the again foot. For him to say that after a loss is sort of important for us.”
Robinson’s feedback come after his run-in with Usman Khawaja during the Edgbaston Test, wherein he had instructed him “f**okay off, you f***ing prick” after bowling him for 141 in the first innings, before James Anderson had to pull him away from another confrontation during his second-innings 65.
Those incidents, and Robinson’s mid-match remark that he “would not care” what people think of his on-field attitude, drew an angry retort from Australia’s former opening bat, Matthew Hayden, who described him as a “forgettable cricketer”, and suggested that his opinions were not in keeping with his talents.
“He’s a quick bowler that’s bowling 124kph nude nuts and he is received a mouth from the south,” Hayden told SEN Radio in Australia. “Someone like him, you’ll be able to simply go, ‘Brother, I’m coming at ya’. Davey Warner can do this, proper. He can simply say, ‘You’re bowling 120′.”
Hayden’s former captain, Ricky Ponting – whom Robinson had referenced as an example of a previous Ashes sledger – also took aim at his comments.
“This England cricket staff hasn’t performed in opposition to Australia, and so they’ll discover out fairly shortly what enjoying Ashes cricket and enjoying in opposition to a superb Australian cricket staff is all about,” Ponting said on an ICC podcast. “And if Robinson hasn’t discovered that already after final week, then he is a sluggish learner.”
On the Khawaja incident, Robinson instructed Wisden.com: “I did not realise the Ussie send-off was such a giant factor till I received off the pitch to search out my telephone blowing up with mates texting me and all of it going off.
“”I simply received caught up within the second,” he added. “I used to be determined for a wicket; I hadn’t bowled that effectively within the first innings. Obviously Ussie was the massive wicket, he was enjoying superbly. It was nothing in opposition to Ussie, it was simply a kind of issues, I received caught up within the second and let myself go.
“It was certainly an interesting week for me, taking Broady’s mantle as Australia’s public enemy number one!” Robinson added, referencing a tweet from Fox Cricket that described him because the “No.1 villain”.
Broad – whose refusal to stroll within the Trent Bridge Test in 2013 was the main flashpoint of that yr’s Ashes motion – responded to the identical tweet, saying: “No1 Villain?! I can’t have lost that tag already can I?! Disappointing.”
Looking forward to subsequent week’s second Test at Lord’s, Robinson added that England “know what’s at stake” however promised that “you’re going to see us come harder and harder” of their bid to show across the scoreline and win the Ashes for the primary time since 2015.
“It’s not just the game and the result on the line, but also the faith that we’re asking the English public to have in us for playing in this new way,” he added. “I have faith in this team that, even if we went 2-0 down, we could still win 3-2, because of the style of cricket that we’re playing.”