The Australian cricket team will have extra security with them for the Headingley Test match this week after a staff member's 11-year-old son and Steve Smith's mother fell victim to verbal attacks.
The series was ignited by controversy during the second Test at Lord’s on Sunday when English batsman Jonny Bairstow was stumped.
“There’s some additional measures going in for this Test match as you’d expect there would be,” he told Sky News Australia on Wednesday morning. The MCC members have the privilege to stand alongside the players as they walk through the pavilion from the changerooms to the field but the usually respectful space descended into chaos after the wicket.
“I thought our players deserved enormous credit for the way they handled themselves in that situation. I defy anybody to be put in a situation like that with abuse being hurled at you to do what they did. "If I was the fielding captain at the time I would have put a lot more pressure on the umpires to ask them what their decision was around the over," England captain Ben Stokes said.
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