England seamer Ollie Robinson confronted an enormous backlash for abusing the Aussie opener Usman Khawaja throughout Day 3 of the Ashes 2023 Edgbaston Take a look at. The English pacer was captured firing cuss phrases in the direction of Khawaja after dismissing the left-handed batter on 141 runs and gave him a send-off in a pumped-up method.

After large discussions and condemnation of the act dedicated by Robinson, Aussie greats Allan Border and Ian Healy have now additionally come ahead and slammed the right-arm pacer for derogatory remarks on Khawaja. Nonetheless, Robinson defended himself by citing the instance of a former Australia captain who was well-known for aggression on the sector.

Though Border confessed that such incidents occur within the warmth of the second, he additional went on to reckon that Robinson will certainly get a payback from the Aussies when he comes out to bat within the second innings.

“I’ve heard some send-offs and have given some send-offs myself. It’s type of warmth of the second type of stuff. Usually, I feel Robinson is a reasonably truthful bloke from what I collect. However, you get fired up as a giant quick bowler, phrases are mentioned after which afterwards it’s all forgotten about usually. The media will bounce on it, after all, however what goes round comes round, he’s put a little bit of a goal on his head. When he comes out the bat, hopefully it’s early tomorrow, and the Aussies received’t overlook that’s for certain,” mentioned Border on SEN Breakfast.

In the meantime, Healy mentioned that Robinson have to be fined for attempting to incite Khwaja and termed his act very impolite on the identical SEN Breakfast present.

“It’s a lack of sophistication like he’s been criticised for, however that’s okay, it occurs within the warmth of the second. I feel he ought to have been punished as a result of it was proven so carefully on TV and it does incite retaliation. If Khawaja retaliated to that and mentioned one thing again to him, he’d most likely get in bother. He (Robinson) was attempting to incite that, it was impolite and it was rugged. There most likely ought to have been somewhat wonderful handed all the way down to Ollie,” Healy shared his views.

However, Robinson later in the course of the post-match press convention acknowledged that his motion was ‘theatre of the sport’ and justified his act by saying that Australian legend Ricky Ponting has performed related issues in previous as nicely.

“All of us need that theatre of the sport, so I’m right here to offer it. I don’t actually care how it’s perceived to be trustworthy. It’s the Ashes, it’s skilled sport. For those who can’t deal with that, what are you able to deal with?,” mentioned Robinson.

“If you’re within the warmth of the second and you’ve got the fervour of the Ashes, that may occur. We’ve all seen Ricky Ponting and different Aussies do the identical to us, and simply because the shoe is on the opposite foot it’s not obtained nicely,” he added.