Verbals are flying this summer but these two rivals have seen and heard it all before, writes James Wallace

We’re only one Test into the men’s Ashes but the volume of off-pitch chatter (granted it started on the field…) has been catnip to headline writers at home and abroad. Fleet Street could launch its own fleet of Zeppelins with the amount of hot air being traded between England and Australia over the past week.
It all started on a slow news day, of course. With rain battering Brum on day three, Ollie Robinson’s potty mouthed send-off of Usman Khawaja started to get some traction. It wa...