Ashes controversy recalls past fights between PMs

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has waded into the controversy over Australia’s victory within the second Ashes take a look at, along with his official spokesman saying: “The prime minister agrees with Ben Stokes. He stated he merely wouldn’t need to win a sport within the method Australia did.”

In case you’ve clicked on this text you in all probability don’t want a primer. And in the event you do want a primer, I think the next will likely be gibberish. However simply to recap: at a key second in England’s remaining innings on Sunday, England’s Jonny Bairstow ducked the ultimate ball of an over from Australia’s Cameron Inexperienced, and wandered down the pitch, pondering the over had completed and the ball was not in play. Australian wicketkeeper Alex Carey tossed the ball into the stumps earlier than the umpire had made that decision, and Bairstow was given out. Cue lots of anger and one in every of cricket’s periodic discussions over whether or not a transfer that’s utterly throughout the guidelines contravenes the “spirit of the sport”.

Sunak’s spokesman was requested whether or not the British PM thought the spirit of the sport had been breached and replied that he did. I imply, in the event you’re the fourth chief your occasion has had in just below 4 years, you’re hardly going to explode your steadying private approval scores by defending your nationwide cricket staff’s largest rivals. Australian PM Anthony Albanese took the simple W too, tweeting “standard Aussies — at all times successful!”, repurposing the mantra of “standard Aussies, at all times dishonest” that acted because the soundtrack to the rest of the match.