Khawaja: Crowd abuse has gone too far within the Ashes
Usman Khawaja believes abuse from the crowds in the direction of gamers has gone too far – each in England and Australia.
Khawaja was concerned within the confrontation with MCC members within the Lord’s pavilion after the controversial stumping of Jonny Bairstow which has led to 3 members being suspended. However, he’s equally involved about what youngsters within the stands are listening to as insults get hurled close to the boundary.
The Bairstow incident prompted sturdy response from the crowds, with Alex Carey saying there had been some “nasty stuff” stated, however gamers had been dealing with loads even earlier than that.
“Personally, if I am coming to the cricket and watching the cricket, I wouldn’t want my kids to be around that,” Khawaja stated forward of the Old Trafford Test. “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.”
England’s gamers are sometimes fast to level out that they obtain related therapy on excursions of Australia and Khawaja doesn’t condone that both.
“If you talk about it to England guys, they say we are equally as rough when [they go to Australia]. I don’t agree with it either way. I don’t think it’s the right thing to do,” Khawaja stated.
“It can be a little disappointing at times, and I think we can take it too far in Australia. I’m not a big fan of it. I know watching a lot of sport and loving sport that it happens around the world. You watch the NBA [and] it happens there. Particularly when crowds can get real close to you, which they can in cricket. It is what it is, I don’t agree with it.”
Khawaja wouldn’t be drawn into additional dialogue concerning the occasions within the Lord’s pavilion. “I’m just going to leave it there,” he stated. “MCC are all over it. I trust them to do the right thing.”
With the Ashes on the road, and Old Trafford one other floor the place the group can get boisterous, it’s unlikely the Australians will probably be in for a quiet time this week.
“There’s some nasty stuff been said but…it is the Ashes,” Carey stated final week. “There was nasty stuff said before that as well. From Australia I still think we’ve got lots of fans and from England, I don’t think we’ve made any, but we probably didn’t lose any.
“It is the Ashes we have got to recollect, and we have had some superb crowds. We love coming over right here, we love taking part in the Ashes and my first expertise [playing Test cricket] in England has been superb.”