Unless England are smart, overblown ‘head-butt’ could derail their Ashes
Cameron Bancroft, his anonymity beyond Perth and Bristol now entirely blown, delivered a scorching straight drive and the Test match was won by Australia with chilling certainty after 70 minutes of play. Unbeaten on 82 on his debut he had batted most impressively alongside David Warner to ensure Australia’s emphatic 10-wicket victory. Job done – or so we thought.
Forty minutes later Bancroft played even better in front of the assembled press corps, who only had a modest interest in his debut as an Australia cricketer. The headline news was the “head-butt”. Of course, this was ridiculous but the way of the world. In front of the microphones Bancroft was immediately asked about the head-butt rather than the straight drive. He was funny, wittingly or not it was hard to tell, which only added to the merriment, though perhaps he was not quite so funny as Steve Smith, next to him, seemed to think. For the Australian captain, renowned as a bit of a comic in his youth, Bancroft had morphed into Billy Connolly.
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