Alex Carey played the role of pantomime villain during the third Ashes test at Headingley among a cast of characters but could yet prove to be the hero for Australia as they aim to secure victory
Fred and Wilma Flinstone were in the Headingley house, as were enough bishops to run the Church of England.
There was a prawn, plenty of bananas, and someone dressed as a dartboard with a mate who had come as Peter ‘Snakebite’ Wright. Or maybe it actually WAS Peter ‘Snakebite’ Wright.
And there was a man – or a woman – inside a giant, inflatable pig outfit being âpursued’ by five butchers with strings of sausages around their necks and armed with mock meat cleavers. But nothing was going to save Alex Carey’s bacon.
After Mitchell Marsh had failed to leave a Chris Woakes delivery, Carey’s every step to the crease was jeered. Accounting for those who had not hung around for the 4.45pm start, the reception was cacophonous. It was a well-lubricated loudness.