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Bairstow lashes out at critics, claim failure is expected from England


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Published : 29 Jun 2019 01:27 PM | Updated : 31 Aug 2020 03:55 PM

Jonny Bairstow has a message for England's players, fans and critics: keep calm and carry on, ESPN reports.

"I was on the radio this morning. I was surprised with a clip of [Michael] Vaughan's comments at 8.30am. Bloody hell. That's pretty rich," Bairstow said. "Because we've done so well, any opportunity for someone to see we've lost two games, they were always going to jump on it.

"People were waiting for us to fail. They are not willing us on to win, in many ways, they are waiting for you to get that loss, so they can jump on your throat. It's a typical English thing to do, in every sport."

"Just because we've lost two games - yes it's in a crunch tournament - and people start talking, it's not going to change the way we go about it. We just have to be relaxed"

"The comments and things like that, you can give it too much air time and then all of a sudden, before you know it, it's a big thing and it's actually really not," Bairstow said. "We've not let that in. Because the way we go about it and the way we play, it doesn't make a difference what's been said here, what's been said there.

"We've done it for such a long period of time and this group has been together for near-on three years now, if not longer. 

So just because we've lost two games - yes it's in a crunch tournament - and people start talking, it's not going to change the way we go about it. We just have to be relaxed.