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Cricket Ashes Heroes​

Why do these idiots keep invading the cricket pitch when players are trying to do their job.
This stunt can put both batter and bowler off their game.

shame on those people who keep doing this


England wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow has been hailed a hero and earned the praise of the British Prime Minister for carrying a protester off the field while other Ashes players protected the Lord’s pitch amid chaos at the second Test.

Two Just Stop Oil demonstrators burst on to the ground five minutes after the start of play at the home of cricket on Wednesday, forcing players to physically stop them from throwing orange paint powder on the pitch.
One was apprehended by Bairstow, a keen rugby league player in his youth who picked up the protester and carried him 50 metres to the boundary.

Another had to be wrestled to the ground close to the wicket as Ben Stokes and David Warner, with bat in hand, barred his way and attempted to tackle him. A third protester was apprehended in the stands, with the trio all arrested.

The incident prompted only a delay of five minutes as the ground staff cleared some of the powder from the outfield – but the players had stopped a potentially much-longer delay.

Ashes debutant Josh Tongue even wondered if Bairstow might have saved the five-day match from being cancelled, adding his teammate was a “bit of a hero to be fair.”

“Jonny doing what he did, who knows? The game could have been called off, added Tongue.

“For myself, I wouldn’t probably go towards them just in case they had anything else on them. Obviously Jonny doing that, maybe he shouldn’t have done that, but I don’t know the protocol.”