Added Labuschagne:“David Warner is,like,spitting out his chicken,and goes,‘Yeah,very’.”

Khawaja,also at the lunch,was surprised at what he witnessed.

“All of them had food in front of them,except Jonny Bairstow. I was thinking,‘That’s a little bit off’,” he said.

All-rounder Mitch Marsh said he was trying to finish his pumpkin soup at the time.

“Remember at school when the teacher tells you off and you shouldn’t be laughing? Well,I was trying to eat my soup,” Marsh said.

“So if you can imagine,I’m eating my soup and I’m shaking like this (his shoulders heave),and I’m like just trying to look down,and then I look up at Jonny and I had pumpkin soup coming down my whites.”

Marsh said he thought “a few” English players were also laughing.

Khawaja added:“I walked out with a couple of the English boys and they were giggling. He still hasn’t eaten anything. He sat the whole time. I finished up and left and Jonny hadn’t touched anything.”

The response by the Australian batsmen suggests they have moved on from the stumping and the controversy that followed it,while dashing England batsmen Zak Crawley and Harry Brook were on Wednesday confirmed aspotential draftees for the coming summer’s Big Bash League.

But prominent England broadcaster Piers Morgan took to social media platform X,formerly Twitter,to air his displeasure atThe Grade Cricketer video of the Australians,and urge England skipper Ben Stokes to use it for motivation.

“If there’s one thing worse than Australia so brazenly abusing the spirit of cricket,it’s seeing the miscreants now chortling away about it. Stokes should play this video to his team before the next Ashes series. In fact,he should play it to them every day between now and then,” Morgan wrote.

Bairstow dismissal,stumped off fast bowler Cameron Green,helped Australia secure a day-five victory,and take a 2-0 series lead.

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