Australia begins the Ashes Check sequence with an exciting two-wicket win over England at Edgbaston, taking a 1-0 lead within the five-match sequence.

There isn’t a denying that the sequence opener was filled with drama, motion, and a fair proportion of heated moments. One incident that took middle stage was England pacer Ollie Robinson’s controversial send-off to Australia opener Usman Khawaja.

The incident didn’t go down nicely with the Australian camp, and Robinson has confronted vital backlash ever since. Whereas Ricky Ponting expressed dissatisfaction with Robinson for associating his title with the controversy, Matthew Hayden didn’t mince phrases, describing the England pacer as a completely forgettable cricketer.

In the meantime, forward of the second take a look at at Lord’s, Stuart Broad has come out in defence of Ollie Robinson, stating that Ricky Ponting, a famend ex-Australian, had his share of contentious moments up to now and referred to as him a ‘big sledger’ of his time.

“Ricky Ponting had a little bit of a nibble as a result of Robbo introduced his title into issues throughout a press convention, however not as a result of Ricky was an enormous sledger,” Broad wrote in his column for the Day by day Mail.

“Ollie had a little bit of a thoughts clean, Ricky Ponting was essentially the most well-known ex-Aussie cricketer he may consider, and that Australia group he performed in was hardly stuffed with shrinking violets, so the hoo-ha that was created shocked us.”

I didn’t like Matthew Hayden’s disparaging feedback: Stuart Broad

Broad additional expressed his disagreement with Matthew Hayden’s ‘forgettable cricketer’ remarks and careworn that so long as the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) had no objections to Robinson’s behaviour, others ought to let the matter go.

“Much more has been fabricated from phrases on the sphere between Ollie Robinson and Usman Khawaja than must have been, to be sincere. Finally, the ICC had no drawback with Ollie’s response to dismissing Khawaja within the first innings and I didn’t like Matthew Hayden’s disparaging feedback about him.”

“Ollie averages 21 with the ball in Check cricket over a good period of time and bowls in a really comparable approach to Glenn McGrath. Sure, there was a little bit of emotion on the sphere, however off it we’re clearly seeing the Australian guys within the pavilion corridors on a regular basis, consuming lunch in the identical room and we loved a nice-natured week. Now a few expletives the opposite approach and everyone seems to be piling in. The place are we going with this?”