Australia’s post-match celebrations come in for criticism after they??retained the Ashes at Old Trafford but Nathan Lyon considers his team have”brought a nation together.”
Their 185-run win was marked by the tourists on day five, which handed them a 2-1 lead going at The Oval, with a raucous celebration.
It began with renditions of this group song’Beneath the Southern Cross’ and a few more out of a mobile stereo, followed by chants and addresses.
One started with”Who did we overcome? England. . .How did we do it? Easy” and immediately descended into something considerably less savoury. At one stage Steve Smith had been seen rubbing and wearing a pair of eyeglasses before darkness at the center of a group huddle.
The conclusion was that he unkindly parodied the Jack Leach, though an alternative storyline was provided that he might have been mimicking Australia opener Chris Rogers of England.
What matters is that the scoreline and the fact that the urn is currently staying their cricketing public and Down Under , a source of pride to the Australia team.
“You have the opportunity to come out and play cricket for Australia and represent your loved ones, friends and everybody back home,” Lyon told the Australian press.
“It’s quite a special moment that a sport can bring a country together. I daresay the boys in that changing room have brought a nation together.
“Right now, it probably has not sunk , but as a kid growing up, and as soon as I received my own Baggy Green, the largest target in my career was to win the Ashes away.
“We are 2-1 up and I’d like to go 3-1 up, and once we hold up the loaf in The Oval it is likely to be an awesome feeling.”
Lyon, who bowled his side became a joke in Manchester’s butt as lovers regularly mocked a botched run out that would have contributed Australia victory at Headingley a week earlier in the series.
Ironically cheered each time he caught the ball he seemed to be unimpressed at the moment, but said he had tuned out the lovers.
“To be truthful with you, you notice it to get the first over or two then it simply becomes white noise,” he said.
“When you’re an expert sportsman, your task is to come out and bowl well, and compete against individuals you are playing. I didn’t really feel it or hear it in the rear end so it does not worry me.”
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