England coach Brendon McCullum has conceded an airport altercation between team security and a cameraman was “not ideal” but insists his side have handled their intense Ashes scrutiny well.<\/p>\n
On the same day Australia batter Cameron Green admitted he had some sympathy for the tourists, McCullum stressed his touring party had embraced the banter in Australia.<\/p>\n
A member of England’s staff made contact with a Seven Network cameraman on Saturday at Brisbane airport, trying to block him from filming the team.<\/p>\n
Cricket Australia media directives state that teams are not available for interview while in transit, but can be filmed “from a respectful distance”.<\/p>\n
England captain Ben Stokes was also unhappy with an Adelaide journalist who breached those guidelines on Saturday, annoyed he had been recorded from close distance.<\/p>\n
The tourists have been heavily scrutinised since touching down in Australia, at times becoming the butt of jokes while going 2-0 down in the series and with their aggressive style of play not working.<\/p>\n
Stokes went as far as to pose for a photo with a radio duo during the team’s highly-publicised break in Noosa, as they held up signs referencing “moral victories” and “Bazball”.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t see [the airport incident], but obviously it wasn’t ideal,” McCullum said. <\/p>\n
“But hopefully it’s been dealt with and everyone’s able to move on. <\/p>\n
“Obviously, we know coming to Australia, there’s a lot of eyeballs, there’s a lot of intensity and scrutiny on everything we do.<\/p>\n
“I feel like we’ve managed ourselves pretty well throughout this tour. I thought the boys were outstanding. <\/p>\n
“The last week we’ve had, they’re engaging with a lot of the locals and everyone was in good spirits. <\/p>\n
“There was some good banter flying both ways and I think everyone treated it [well] and respected it.”<\/p>\n
McCullum, a former New Zealand captain, also defended England’s decision to go to Noosa, with the trip having been booked well in advance given the gap between the Perth and Adelaide Tests.<\/p>\n
The third Test starts on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
“It was quite an important period,” the beleaguered coach said. <\/p>\n
“We could give ourselves a chance to allow some of the lessons we’ve learnt over the last couple of weeks to settle and to recalibrate a little bit.<\/p>\n
“I think now the freshness which we come into this Test match with will hopefully pay off.”<\/p>\n
McCullum’s comments came as Green admitted he felt sorry for the tourists, admitting he too battled to grow accustomed to the spotlight put on players.<\/p>\n
“You never like getting filmed, especially when you want to get away from it,” Green said. <\/p>\n
“There’s always sympathy for anyone in life that’s getting filmed in public or in a private space.<\/p>\n
“It’s never a nice feeling.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England coach Brendon McCullum has conceded an airport altercation between team security and a cameraman was “not ideal”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6429,111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-184310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-black-caps","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}