{"id":244773,"date":"2025-11-05T06:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T06:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/244773\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T06:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T06:09:11","slug":"ben-stokes-given-typical-ashes-welcome-by-west-australian-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/244773\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Stokes given typical Ashes welcome by West Australian newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"

England captain Ben Stokes was given a typical welcome by the Australian media on his arrival in Perth.<\/p>\n

A picture of Stokes in arrivals at the airport was on the front page of the West Australian newspaper, which carried the headline ‘Baz Bawl’.<\/p>\n

“England’s Cocky Captain Complainer, still smarting from crease-gate, lands in Perth early thinking dopey Bazball can take the Ashes,” read the caption, referring to the controversial stumping of England’s Jonny Bairstow by Australia’s Alex Carey during the last Ashes in 2023.<\/p>\n

All-rounder Stokes is the latest in a string of arrivals as England gather in Perth to prepare for the first Test on 21 November. England play their sole Ashes warm-up against England Lions at Lilac Hill next week.<\/p>\n

Rough treatment towards England teams is nothing new, particularly at the beginning of Ashes tours.<\/p>\n

In 2013, the Brisbane Courier Mail famously refused to print the name of England’s Stuart Broad after he did not walk for an edge during an Ashes series earlier the same year.<\/p>\n

The newspaper called him a “Smug Pommie Cheat”.<\/p>\n

In the From the Ashes series on BBC Sounds, former England captain Michael Vaughan described how the local media covered a training session in Perth at the beginning of the 2002-03 tour of Australia.<\/a><\/p>\n

“We arrived in Perth and did a gentle fielding session at the Waca, and it went great,” said Vaughan.<\/p>\n

“The local newspaper positioned a camera. When you field for an hour and a half, and there’s 16 or 17 in the squad, there’s bound to be one or two go down.<\/p>\n

“Next day on the front of the paper was ‘England drop in to town’ and pictures of us all dropping a ball.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England captain Ben Stokes was given a typical welcome by the Australian media on his arrival in Perth.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-244773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}