{"id":35648,"date":"2025-11-24T00:41:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T00:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/the-ashes-england-fans-should-be-better-than-abuse-directed-at-steve-smith-says-darren-lehmann\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T00:41:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T00:41:51","slug":"the-ashes-england-fans-should-be-better-than-abuse-directed-at-steve-smith-says-darren-lehmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/the-ashes-england-fans-should-be-better-than-abuse-directed-at-steve-smith-says-darren-lehmann\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes: England fans should be better than &#8220;abuse&#8221; directed at Steve Smith, says Darren Lehmann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During a Test against South Africa, Smith admitted Australia&#8217;s &#8220;leadership group&#8221; devised a plan to tamper with the ball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former opener David Warner taught batter Cameron Bancroft how to use sandpaper to rough up the ball, and Bancroft was then caught doing so by TV cameras during play. Both men were also banned along with Smith.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smith made his comeback after the ball-tampering episode in the 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/ashes\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Ashes<\/a> Test at Edgbaston and has been booed repeatedly since. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England fans also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/av\/cricket\/43583360\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">base taunts on his tearful news conference in 2018.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We did the wrong thing, accept it and move on,&#8221; Lehmann said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You try to move on the best you can. You get reminded every day and that is part and parcel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Steve Smith can hold his head high with how he handles everything. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The Barmy Army should be better than that. Most of them are and are very supportive of what goes on in the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c1w9n3q9evdo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a Test against South Africa, Smith admitted Australia&#8217;s &#8220;leadership group&#8221; devised a plan to tamper with the ball. Former opener David Warner taught batter Cameron Bancroft how to use sandpaper to rough up the ball, and Bancroft was then caught doing so by TV cameras during play. Both men were also banned along with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35650,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35648\/revisions\/35650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}