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The debate is getting intense in the Australian media involving England pacer Ollie Robinson. It all started after the verbal altercation between the England quick Robinson and the veteran Aussie batter Usman Khawaja. The entire episode also involved a few highly intense statements from the former Australian greats including the likes of former skipper Ricky Ponting and the former opener Matthew Hayden.
But Australian media was quick to criticize Robinson and named the latter as the ‘No 1 Villain’ in their headlines.
“No. 1 villain Ollie Robinson has learned his fate over an expletive-laden send-off to Usman Khawaja,” reads one of the headlines published for Ollie Robinson by one of the major Australian media houses.
This kind of attitude from the Australian media didn’t go down well with veteran England pacer and Robinson’s teammate Stuart Broad. He didn’t take too long to come up with a comment on the abovementioned headline. Broad also took a dig at the Australian media by naming this act as ‘disappointing’.
“No1 Villain?!” I can’t have lost that tag already, can I?! Disappointing,” replied Broad in the comment section of the tweet posted by one of the Australian media houses.
Here’s a look at the face-off between Australian media and Stuart Broad:
No. 1 villain Ollie Robinson has learned his fate over an expletive-laden send-off for Usman Khawaja 👀
— Fox Cricket (@FoxCricket) June 22, 2023
ASHES DAILY 👉 https://t.co/DWrwo5P2on pic.twitter.com/cZ84wH9cUn
“No1 Villain?!” I can’t have lost that tag already can I?! Disappointing
— Stuart Broad (@StuartBroad8) June 22, 2023
Meanwhile, the former Australian skipper Ricky Ponting happened to hit back at Ollie Robinson as the latter dragged his name into the debate that sparked after the verbal altercation with Usman Khawaja.
“As I said after Ollie Robinson said what he said, this England cricket team hasn’t played against Australia and they’ll find out pretty quickly what playing Ashes cricket and playing against a good Australian cricket team is all about,” said Ponting in a podcast of cricket’s governing body.
“If he is sitting back thinking about me, then no wonder he bowled like the way that he did in that game if he’s worried about what I did 15 years ago. He’ll learn pretty quickly that if you’re going to talk to Australian cricketers in an Ashes series, then you want to be able to back it up with your skills,” he added later.