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England urged to embrace hostility
Derby Telegraph
|November 18, 2025
PHIL Tufnell knows all too well how hostile the Australian public can be during the Ashes but he hopes England will learn to love even the most unforgiving environments.
Stokes talks tactics with coach Brendan McCullum ahead of Friday's first Test
The former slow left-armer was on the receiving end of one of cricket's most famous sledges when a spectator in the Melbourne crowd yelled: "Oi, Tufnell. Lend us your brain. We're building an idiot."
A minced beef and onion pie was also slapped off Tufnell's head in the 1990s after he tried to sign an autograph, but the 59-year-old BBC Test Match Special pundit reflects fondly on his tours Down Under.
This story is from the November 18, 2025 edition of Derby Telegraph.
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