Australia spinner Nathan Lyon celebrated his team’s victory in the first Test of the Ashes 2023 at Edgbaston in the same pub where opener David Warner had infamously punched England’s Joe Root in 2013.
As if that wasn’t enough, the pub was England supporters’ club Barmy Army’s head-quarter for the first Test, as the rowdy fan group shared a picture with Nathan Lyon calling it an ‘all-out war’.
Australia was set 281 runs to win the Test and Usman Khawaja scored a fifty after his first innings ton and captain Pat Cummins made 44* as the visitors recorded a 2-wicket win to go 1-0 up in the five-Test series.
After the match, Australian players decided to celebrate their victory, and their choice of venue to do so turned out to be an interesting choice. Lyon was one of the Australian players who travelled to a pub in Birmingham to celebrate the victory, but it turns out it was the same Australian-themed pub where Warner had punched Root in 2013.
Warner and some other Australian players skipped the celebrations, buy Lyon and other players decided to have some fun.
Coincidentally, many Barmy Army fans were also present there, it was their head-quarter for the first Test as one of the England fans shared a snap with Lyon.
“This is all out war now, The Aussies celebrated yesterday’s win in our HQ for the week. Apologies @WalkaboutBrum, we’ll make sure it’s full for the 2nd Test," Barmy Army tweeted.
According to a report in Fox Sports, England pacer Ollie Robinson was let off the hook with just a warning despite him giving a fiery send-off to Usman Khawaja in the first innings. Though Robinson gave an expletive laden send off to the opener, the match officials considered the send-off a ‘borderline case.’
