Australia’s Tim Paine plays down on-field comments to England’s Ben Stokes

Australia captain Tim Paine refused his side had allowed sledging go too far as England set the foundations for an success in the final Test.
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England batted throughout day as they stacked a towering lead of 382 up at The Oval, and will look to stretch that 400 when they restart on 313-8.
The vacationers tried to unsettle the hosts together with Matthew Wade seemingly to the end, using a stream of chatter in a morning session that was tense, and the stump microphone picked up attempts to end up Ben Stokes throughout his knock of 67.
The England all-rounder overlooked the Ashes series Down Under following his arrest for a late night scuffle at Bristol – an incident that ultimately resulted in his acquittal on charges of affray – along with references to the city were seemingly audible from the close fielders.
Paine was introduced in to captain his country in an effort to clean up Australia’s reputation and conduct following the sandpaper scandal and didn’t take kindly to suggestions.
“You let me. It is aggressive Test cricket and people are going to talk to each other,” he explained.
“I don’t know why it is such a problem. It’s fine. They are grown men with a dialogue, no-one is swearing, no one is currently abusing anybody: it match cricket and I do not understand why so much is made of something modest, particularly given the caliber of cricket being played.
“I think there is so much more to discuss. I feel both sides have played with this show in good spirit.”
Joe Denly was out in the midst for more than any other batsman as he underpinned the England innings and he declined to fan the fires.
“I did not hear anything about Bristol but if Ben comes to the crease, the sort of player he is, they’re likely to attempt to unsettle him,” he said.
“Stokesy deals with that fairly well. There’s always going to be a little niggle but nothing over the line, just a bit of friendly banter.”
Denly has a couple of days that are memorable, having become a father for the second time between the first and second days of the game. To follow that news up at his final appearance of summer with a functionality of grit and material left him articles and amazingly well rested.
“I had an excellent last night since I stayed at the hotel and got about 10 hours! The preceding night I only had about three hours so I grabbed up,” he said.
“I missed the arrival of my child – he came three months early and I had been playing Derby, the midwife said’do not hurry’ so I didn’t! I missed it by about 5 minutes and hit on traffic. So it was good to get there and see my girl. It’s been a few days.
“It would have been nice to get to the landmark having worked hard but I would probably take that, yeah. England are in a very strong position going into day four and hopefully we get a couple more runs and place them under stress ”
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