{"id":13999,"date":"2025-10-28T14:32:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T12:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/12213\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:41","slug":"12213","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/12213\/","title":{"rendered":"Carey hoping Australia fans can block out English taunts during Ashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Australia wicketkeeper Alex Carey remembers a hostile reception from English crowds after stumping Jonny Bairstow at Lord&#8217;s during the 2023 Ashes and hopes home fans can drown out the taunts of the Barmy Army in the coming series.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Carey sparked a &#8216;Spirit of Cricket&#8217; row when he threw down the stumps as Bairstow left his crease at the end of an over on the final day of the second test at the game&#8217;s spiritual home.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Australia&#8217;s players were subjected to abuse from MCC members in the stadium&#8217;s Long Room, while incensed England coach Brendon McCullum questioned the visitors&#8217; sportsmanship.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>More than two years on from the incident, Carey said he was expecting some reminders from England&#8217;s travelling fans during the five-test series which starts in Perth from November 21.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;It&#8217;s going to be exciting the Barmy Army, I think I&#8217;ve seen a few chants come through already, which is great,&#8221; he told reporters in Adelaide on Tuesday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;That sort of stuff just, it&#8217;s in the history of the game, it will get spoken about forever.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;But as a player and as a playing group, you want to be in those big moments.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;I experienced it over in England so hopefully the Australian crowd can sort of block out some of that noise &#8211; and we have more fans here for Australia than England.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>Australia won the Lord&#8217;s test to take a 2-0 lead and ended up retaining the urn despite losing two of the last three matches.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Carey was a target of jeering fans for the rest of the series after Lord&#8217;s but said he was comfortable with his part in Ashes history.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;It&#8217;s part of the game,&#8221; he said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We love it, it&#8217;s sports totally understand there&#8217;s heroes and villains. That&#8217;s what Ashes cricket is all about.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13658,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-13999","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Australia's players were subjected to abuse from MCC members in the stadium's Long Room, while England coach Brendon McCullum questioned the visitors' sportsmanship.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Australia's players were subjected to abuse from MCC members in the stadium's Long Room, while England coach Brendon McCullum questioned the visitors' sportsmanship.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18861,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13999\/revisions\/18861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}