{"id":131625,"date":"2023-10-05T14:03:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T14:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/?p=131625"},"modified":"2023-10-05T14:03:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T14:03:15","slug":"mcc-members-banned-following-feisty-ashes-bust-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/lifestyle\/mcc-members-banned-following-feisty-ashes-bust-up\/","title":{"rendered":"MCC members banned following feisty Ashes bust up"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Lord&#8217;s EXPELS MCC member after Australian cricketers David Warner and Usman Khawaja were confronted in the Long Room during feisty Ashes series as exclusive club announces its sanctions<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lord&#8217;s have announced its sanctions for the feisty Ashes Long Room scenes\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Furious cricket fans confronted Australia&#8217;s cricketers during the Lord&#8217;s Test\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>An MCC member has been expelled while two others have been banned\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An MCC member has been expelled after Australian cricketers David Warner and Usman Khawaja were confronted in the Lord&#8217;s Long Room by furious cricket fans during this summer&#8217;s hostile Ashes series.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Australian opening batsmen and their team-mates were accused of cheating by furious Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) members following Jonny Bairstow&#8217;s controversial stumping on the final day of the second Ashes Test &#8211; which the tourists triumphed in to take a 2-0 lead in the series.<\/p>\n<p>Bairstow wandered out of his crease at the end of an over &#8211; believing the ball was dead &#8211; only to be run out by Australia wicket-keeper Alex Carey who under-armed the ball at the stumps just before lunch, sparking ugly scenes at Lord&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Guy Lavender, the chief executive and secretary of the MCC, commended an &#8216;unforgettable day of Test cricket&#8217; but said it may &#8216;sadly be remembered for other reasons&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cricket Australia demanded a probe in the feisty exchange, and now the MCC has announced its punishments following an investigation, with one member expelled from the club, while another has been given a four-and-a-half-year ban.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/05\/10\/72764913-12597067-Australian_cricketer_Usman_Khawaja_got_into_a_heated_argument_wi-a-18_1696498458358.jpg\" height=\"783\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>An MCC member has been expelled and two others banned for the feisty Long Room bust up\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/05\/10\/72764915-12597067-After_the_Long_Room_member_exchanged_words_with_Khawaja_David_Wa-a-19_1696498460070.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Angry cricket fans exchanged words with David Warner and Usman Khawaja during the Ashes\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/05\/10\/72764035-12597067-The_confrontation_in_the_Long_Room_was_unprecedented_as_the_Ashe-a-20_1696498461988.jpg\" height=\"358\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>MCC members were incensed after the Aussies controversially dismissed Jonny Bairstow\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A third member has been given a 30-month suspension. All three members were sanctioned for &#8216;abusive, offensive or inappropriate behaviour or language&#8217;.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Australia were accused of betraying &#8216;the spirit of the game&#8217; after the Bairstow incident, and the series took a more volatile turn for the remaining three Tests, which ended in a 2-2 draw at the Oval.<\/p>\n<p>When both sets of players walked off for Lunch, Khawaja and Warner were filmed arguing with angry members in the famous Long Room as boos rang out and shouts of &#8216;absolute disgrace&#8217; were heard.<\/p>\n<p>Khawaja could be seen angrily confronting a member before he was pulled away by a team-mate and staff member. Moments later, Warner also had to be held back by the security team as tensions boiled over.<\/p>\n<p>The Aussies have since opened up on what happened between the two sets of players during that lunch break, with Marnus Labuschagne and Steve Smith revealing a frosty exchange took place between Warner and Bairstow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Labuschagne said Bairstow refused to eat anything before firing a shot at opener Warner, to which the veteran responded tersely.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I was in the lunch room,&#8217; he said. &#8216;Jonny was steaming, absolutely steaming. He walked in the lunch room and didn&#8217;t have lunch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The Sky crew knew that Jonny was in there and they just replayed it on the screen. And as you do, everyone&#8217;s watching. Obviously seeing us all watch, he&#8217;s like &#8220;are you guys happy with that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;David Warner&#8217;s spitting out his chicken and goes &#8220;yeah, very.&#8221; The only words said.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/05\/10\/72762997-12597067-Cricket_fans_fumed_as_Jonny_Bairstow_was_controversially_stumped-a-21_1696498478850.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The Australians were accused of betraying &#8216;the spirit of cricket&#8217; at Lord&#8217;s this summer\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/05\/10\/72763499-12597067-Carey_threw_the_ball_back_at_the_stumps_when_Bairstow_had_wander-a-22_1696498480679.jpg\" height=\"403\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Wicketkeeper Alex Carey threw the ball back at the stumps when Bairstow had wandered out of his ground, believing that a Cameron Green delivery was dead<\/p>\n<p>Steve Smith added: &#8216;It was funny,&#8217; while Mitch Marsh said the Aussies struggled to stifle their laughter after Warner&#8217;s comment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Remember at school when the teacher tells you off and you shouldn&#8217;t be laughing? Well, I was trying to eat my soup, so if you can imagine, I&#8217;m eating my soup and I&#8217;m shaking like this, and I&#8217;m just trying to look down and I look up at Jonny and I had pumpkin soup coming down my whites.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Travis Head said: &#8216;I had my back turned to Jonny but I could imagine Jonny looking at us and when David said, &#8220;very&#8221;, me and a few others got the shoulder shakes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He (Bairstow) would have seen three shoulders pucking with their heads down.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>And Usman Khawaja claimed that even some of the England stars found the exchange amusing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I walked out with a couple of the English boys and they were giggling,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Bairstow still hasn&#8217;t eaten anything. He sat the whole time. So I&#8217;ve finished up and left and Jonny hadn&#8217;t touched anything.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/05\/10\/74828011-12597067-Australia_s_stars_have_spilled_the_beans_on_a_very_awkward_lunch-a-23_1696498493046.jpg\" height=\"356\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s stars have since spilled the beans on a very awkward lunch at Lord&#8217;s in the Ashes<\/p>\n<p>However, British television presenter and vociferous England supporter Piers Morgan has fumed at the Aussies&#8217; boastful antics in the video, labelling the players &#8216;miscreants&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If there\u2019s one thing worse than Australia so brazenly abusing the spirit of cricket, it\u2019s seeing the miscreants now chortling away about it,&#8217; he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Stokes should play this video to his team before the next Ashes series. In fact, he should play it to them every day between now and then.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The hostilities continued for the remainder of the series, culminating in the players not sharing beers after the fifth Test at the Oval.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/article-12597067\/Lords-EXPELS-MCC-member-Australian-cricketers-David-Warner-Usman-Khawaja-Long-Room-feisty-Ashes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord&#8217;s EXPELS MCC member after Australian cricketers David Warner and Usman Khawaja were confronted in the Long Room during feisty&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>MCC members banned following feisty Ashes bust up - 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