{"id":246898,"date":"2025-10-28T18:34:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/246898\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T18:34:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:34:14","slug":"england-bowler-to-play-sydney-grade-cricket-ahead-of-ashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/246898\/","title":{"rendered":"England bowler to play Sydney grade cricket ahead of Ashes"},"content":{"rendered":"

After dismissing Khawaja for 141 at Edgbaston, Robinson sprinted down the pitch yelling: \u201cF— off, you f—ing p—k.\u201d Match referee Andy Pycroft took no action, while Robinson later defended his actions.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t really care how it is perceived, to be honest,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s the Ashes, it\u2019s professional sport. If you can\u2019t handle that, what can you handle?<\/p>\n

\"Ollie<\/p>\n

Ollie Robinson exchanges words with Usman Khawaja during the 2023 Ashes seriesCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve all seen Ricky Ponting [and] other Aussies do the same to us. Just because the shoe is on the other foot, it\u2019s not received well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ponting was quick to fire back.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he is sitting back thinking about me, then no wonder he bowled like the way that he did in that game, if he\u2019s worried about what I did 15 years ago,\u201d Ponting told the ICC Review Podcast in 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis England cricket team hasn\u2019t played against Australia, and they\u2019ll find out pretty quickly what playing Ashes cricket, and playing against a good Australian cricket team, is all about. If Ollie Robinson hasn\u2019t learned that already after last week, then he\u2019s a slow learner.\u201d<\/p>\n

Former Australian Test opener Matt Hayden was less than impressed by Robinson\u2019s send-off.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe other bloke, he\u2019s a forgettable cricketer,\u201d Hayden said. \u201cHe\u2019s a fast bowler that is bowling 124km\/h nude nuts, and he\u2019s got a mouth from the south.\u201d<\/p>\n

Robinson made headlines last year for bowling the worst over in first-class history<\/a> (43 runs conceded) during a county match for Sussex. However, from 20 Tests for England, Robinson boasts 76 wickets at the impressive average of 22.92<\/p>\n

He follows a long line of Englishmen to play club cricket in Sydney. Kevin Pietersen turned out for Sydney University in 2002-03, on a deal reported to be $3000, after being recommended to the club by Australian spinner Stuart MacGill.<\/p>\n

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Pietersen, who later went on to help England claim Ashes glory in 2005, plundered 765 runs that season at an average of 84 and a strike rate of more than 100. Future Australian Test batsman Ed Cowan and Pietersen both hit 19 sixes that season.<\/p>\n

At the time, Greg Matthews predicted Pietersen would make 8000 Test runs. He retired with 8181 to his name.<\/p>\n

Other England players to feature in Sydney grade cricket include Andrew Strauss (Sydney University and Mosman), Monty Panesar (Randwick-Petersham), Zak Crawley (Sydney), Ben Duckett (Parramatta) and Ollie Pope (Campbelltown-Camden).<\/p>\n

Robinson has dropped out of favour with the England set-up amid concerns over his fitness, decline in pace and what former Test batter Mark Butcher described as a \u201cbreakdown in trust\u201d with team management.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there\u2019s been a breakdown in trust between him and the management,\u201d Butcher said on the Wisden Cricket Weekly podcast last year. \u201cFrom what I\u2019ve heard and what I think I know, the covenant of trust between those guys and the player has broken down almost irretrievably.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After dismissing Khawaja for 141 at Edgbaston, Robinson sprinted down the pitch yelling: \u201cF— off, you f—ing p—k.\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-246898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}