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England captain Ben Stokes has added to his remarks this morning about the controversial stumping of Johnny Bairstow, telling media in London that he sacked PwC partners in Australia would easy find a job over the road at Cricket Australia.
The big Kiwi was joined by little Kiwi Brendon McCullum, who was equally as scathing as his captain.
“I’ve heard they don’t do things above board at PwC,” said Stokes.
“Maybe they could find a job with the cricket team? They’re looking for an offie at the moment, maybe they could get one of the partners in to roll the arm over. Bat down the order and stand at point, dribble away between each ball. You know, more country boy navel gazing, that’s what we need out at point,”
“I don’t want to pack a sad or.”
Ben looked at Brendon, who’d just kicked him in the leg.
“Sorry, that means to throw a tantrum in New Zealand English. Uh, how do you say it in the Queens?”
Brendon then took over.
“What Ben’s trying to say is that these fucking Australians have done it again. Whenever we try to cheat against them, it never works out. When they do it to us, they always get away with it. But they will pay at Headingly. They’ve fired up Ben and if there’s anything this team has shown is that it’s only competitive when Ben’s fired up. If he’s not, even Ireland can walk all over us,” he said.
Ben shrugged.
“I guess so.”
More to come.
