He Greeted Me With A Head-Butt, For Me It Was Really Weird, Says Cameron Bancroft On Jonny Bairstow

Nov 27, 2017 at 12:45 PM

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He Greeted Me With A Head-Butt, For Me It Was Really Weird, Says Cameron Bancroft On Jonny Bairstow

Australian opener Cameron Bancroft has commented on the controversy involving him and Jonny Bairstow as he has said that yes, Jonny Bairstow greeted him with a head-butt, but there was nothing malicious in his actions,

“I got into a very amicable conversation with Jonny and yeah, he just greeted me with a head-butt, kind of thing. I was expecting a handshake … it wasn’t the greeting of choice I was expecting,” Bancroft said at the end of first Ashes Test.

“That was the way that I took it. There was certainly no malice in his actions and we continued on having very good conversations for the rest of the evening. At the time, he said sorry. For me, it was just really weird. It was so random, I didn’t expect it coming. A handshake or a hug is something I would have expected more than a head-butt,” he added.

The news involving Bairstow and Bancroft came out on on the fourth day’s play when it was reported that Bairstow head-butted the debutant at a bar in Perth a few days back.

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England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) took a note of the news that came out on fourth day’s play and issued a statement the same day. As no official complaint has been made as of yet, no action has been taken against Bairstow, and the matter seems to be dumped now with Bancroft also laughing off the matter.

Earlier in the day, after the end of the first Test, Joe Root also protected his player and said that a mountain was being made out of a molehill.

Australia posted a win in the first Test and defeated visitors by a margin of 10 wickets to go one up in the series in quest of regaining the Ashes urn.

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Overnight not out batsmen David Warner (87*) and Cameron Bancroft (82*) had no issues in chasing down the total, and Australia suffered no jitters at all, thus chasing down the total without any worries.

Going ahead, the second Test will be a pink ball Test, a first in Ashes series, which will start on December 2 in Adelaide.

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