Aussie Ashes star staggered by ‘outdated woman’ England fan after fiery row

Nathan Lyon has revealed that he was confronted by a crying outdated woman after MCC members clashed with Australian gamers following the notorious dismissal of Jonny Bairstow throughout England’s run chase on day 5 of the second Ashes Test at Lord’s.

With the dismissal coming quarter-hour earlier than the lunch break, crowds within the Long Room gathered to make their opinions heard because the Australian gamers went to their dressing room. Squabbles between Australian gamers and MCC members ensued, with Usman Khawaja and David Warner being dragged into verbal altercations, ultimately resulting in each gamers being pulled away by safety.

Khawaja later insisted that abuse geared toward gamers by the crowds had gone too far, whereas three members have since had their memberships provisionally suspended pending an investigation.

“Personally, if I am coming to the cricket and watching the cricket, I wouldn’t want my kids to be around that,” Khawaja stated after the incident. “If I saw that I would 100 percent make a complaint or just leave. I think some of the stuff can be pretty poor. Over at Edgbaston they were calling Travis Head a c… you know what. I’m like I can’t believe you can actually say that in a public domain anywhere.”

The battle didn’t finish there, nevertheless, with Lyon revealing that tensions continued between each groups within the shared eating room at Lord’s. “There were a few Australian guys and a few English guys in the lunchroom and I hobbled up on my crutches and stood in the middle of it and tried to calm things down a little bit.

“Jonny had a few words here or there. That’s all part of it, I’m all for it,” he advised the Willow Talk Cricket Podcast. The offspinner additional commented on how “everybody was gobsmacked” on the method during which the scenario escalated, with some fan reactions significantly hitting house.

“I actually had an older lady come up to me in tears, an English lady in tears from the main members’ area, and she said ‘I’ve got to go home. I just want to apologise to you Australian cricketers for the way everyone has reacted inside Lord’s,” Lyon added.

“I just told her don’t worry about it, we’re all okay, we’re not worried about getting sledged. But it hit home for me that Ashes cricket can affect so many people in different ways and just the actions of people can hit so many different people as well. It was a nice moment but an awkward moment with the lady in genuine tears about it all.”

Lyon sustained a calf harm within the Test at Lord’s, ruling him out for the remainder of the collection, which Australia are at present main 2-1. England head into the essential fourth Test at Old Trafford figuring out they should win to face an opportunity of regaining the Urn for the primary time since 2015, whereas victory for the vacationers would wrap up the collection forward of the ultimate Test on the Oval in simply over every week’s time.