Smith the difference but Bairstow laid himself fopen for the sledgers

By Chris Stocks at the Gabba

Chit Chat: Cameron Bancroft and David Warner offer some words of encouragment to Jonny Bairstow
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THIS opening Ashes Test was a case of ifs, head-butts and maybes for an England team who left the Gabba chastened and humiliated despite competing for much of the contest.
The humiliation was less to do with a ten-wicket defeat that has put Australia in control of this series and more to do with the news about Jonny Bairstow’s clashing of heads with Cameron Bancroft in a Perth nightclub that broke in the hours before a fifth and final d...

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