{"id":274198,"date":"2025-11-09T23:13:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T23:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/274198\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T23:13:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T23:13:17","slug":"mcc-officials-weigh-up-spectators-life-ban-for-ashes-incident-at-lords-usman-khawaja-comments-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/274198\/","title":{"rendered":"MCC officials weigh up spectator’s life ban for Ashes incident at Lord’s; Usman Khawaja comments, reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"

The life ban handed to a member of the Marylebone Cricket Club<\/a> following ugly scenes in the Lord’s Long Room during the last Ashes series could be overturned.<\/p>\n

According to The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>, the organisation is reconsidering the life ban that was handed to one member, who was part of a group that insulted Australian players as they left the field for lunch during the second Test in 2023.<\/p>\n

Usman Khawaja and David Warner were two players who stopped and argued with those hurling abuse, with the pair identifying the hostile patrons to surrounding officials.<\/p>\n

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The incident came shortly after Alex Carey stumped Jonny Bairstow<\/a>, prompting accusations that Australia had disrespected the spirit of the game.<\/p>\n

\"Usman<\/p>\n

Usman Khawaja was less than pleased at the behaviour of members inside the Lord’s Long Room.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

Three members were sanctioned for the act, with one receiving a four-and-a-half-year ban and another hit with a 30 month ban, which is set to expire at the end of this year.<\/p>\n

The third member was expelled from the club. <\/p>\n

Sources close to the situation told the the Herald that the life ban is under review, despite an appeal having been lodged at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n

However, the MCC have since appointed a new independent disciplinary panel chair, James Counsell, who has the power to revisit the penalties that had been given. <\/p>\n

Australian great Mark Taylor<\/a> admitted at the time that the penalties were “harsh but fair” while Khawaja said he “expects a lot better from the members”.<\/p>\n

As for if the sanction should be overturned, Khawaja was not opposed to that occurring.<\/p>\n

“As long as he’s learnt from it,” Khawaja told the the Herald.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Usman Khawaja\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

“I’m a big believer in second chances, as long as you learn from your mistakes.<\/p>\n

“If these guys have learned from their mistakes and they’re never going to spray players as they’re walking off the field 30cm from their face, that’s fine.<\/p>\n

“But there needs to be some sort of remorse and understanding shown and that’s for the MCC. I’m all for second chances, I’m not the guy to hold grudges, but I do think you need to learn from your mistakes and avoid doing them again.”<\/p>\n

Since the incident, the shared space between the members and players in the Lord’s Long Room has been closely monitored to prevent similar situations from unfolding.<\/p>\n

The first Ashes Test will take place at Optus Stadium in Perth on November 21. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The life ban handed to a member of the Marylebone Cricket Club following ugly scenes in the Lord’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-274198","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\/274198","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=274198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}