Australia batter Jake Weatherald said England’s fielders were quick to sledge his fellow opener Marnus Labuschagne for making the debutant face the opening ball of the hosts’ first innings in Perth.<\/p>\n
When Usman Khawaja was not able to open because of injury, Labuschagne moved up the order but asked Weatherald to face Jofra Archer and co first.<\/p>\n
Travis Head, who would go on to hit a match-winning century as Australia raced to victory inside two days, faced the first over in the second innings, prompting some of the England side to point out Labuschagne wasn’t as generous.<\/p>\n
“It was actually pretty friendly,” Weatherald told Cricket Australia, when asked about any sledging out in the middle. “It was more around Marnus not taking the first ball with my first innings.<\/p>\n
“Which I agreed with \u2013 I was like, ‘Yeah, you’re right, boys, he probably should have taken it for me’ \u2013 it was all fun and games.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think they were too worried about me, to be fair. I think they were more worried about Heady and the rest of the boys coming in. So just a bit of casual stuff, nothing too vicious.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia batter Jake Weatherald said England’s fielders were quick to sledge his fellow opener Marnus Labuschagne for making…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-279521","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\/279521","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=279521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}