OPINION: Australia should be proud of more than just the result in the first Ashes Test
Captain Tim Paine's request for pre-match handshakes was considered by England to be some sort of treacherous mind game, while Ben Stokes complained that"it is weird, Aussies trying to be nice to you".
As much as this new approach seemed to rattle the opposition, the implacable nature of the Australians in the face of some hostile — even vile — crowd behaviour inevitably cast them as the stoic heroes holding their nerve in the face of enemy fire. When Warner stood in front of the Hollies Stand and was serenaded with a chorus of"he's got sandpaper in his hands" by the most venomous members of Boris Johnson's Brexit Army, even the pugnacious opener's greatest critics must have felt some sympathy.
Yet rather than grimace or ignore his tormentors, Warner turned out his empty pockets, a gesture that simultaneously acknowledged his role in the great scandal and defused the nastiest elements of the crowd. The victim of the joke was now in on it.
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