Australia cricketers could only laugh as they dealt with hostile Edgbaston abuse
With the Ashes being the biggest thing there is for Australian and English cricket fans, there can often be a lot of passion involved.
And that was certainly the case at the 2019 series, especially during the first test at Edgbaston in Birmingham.The English fans did not give the Australian team a moments peace during the Edgbaston test of the 2019 AshesCredit: Amazon Prime: The Testfor roughing up the ball in a test against South Africa in 2018.And fans were keen to remind them about their wrongdoing and teary apologies as the Australian team bus left a rowdy Edgbaston.
Chants of 'cheat, cheat, cheat' and 'we saw you cry on the telly' could also be heard, aimed at Smith, Warner and Bancroft."There's the booing, but the worst thing was when we got on the bus at the end of each day's play, just the abuse," commented Australian coach at the time Justin Langer on Amazon's Prime's documentary 'The Test'.Australian captain Tim Paine added: "It was all just part of trying to embrace it, we just went with it.
"People were everywhere on the street that's just how Edgbaston was, it was a really aggressive place."
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