Lehmann fans flames

Australia coach Darren Lehmann has called on the Aussie public to send Stuart Broad back home in tears when England make the trip Down Under for the return Ashes series.

Broad is public enemy No1 to all Australians after standing his ground during the second Test at Trent Bridge following an obvious nick.

And the all-rounder fanned the flames further on Tuesday by admitting he knew he had edged behind but refused to walk because of England's "win-at-all-costs" ruthlessness.

Broad even said: "I think we are an unpleasant team to play against at the minute. Teams will not come and play against us and enjoy the experience, which is what we want.

"One thing about this England team is we are tough. We come through tricky times and we stand up and want to be counted," he said.

"It is quite an un-English thing that this team has got. We want that to continue."

Since then England have shrugged off controversy over bat tape, ignored digs from Shane Warne about their negative tactics, and Broad inspired them to fight back when all appeared lost in the fourth Test at Durham to win the Ashes with a match to spare. The Ashes scoreline may say 3-0 but this has been a hard-fought experience for the England players.

Australia have already lost this Ashes series going into the fifth Test at the Oval, but Lehmann wants England, and Broad in particular, to suffer a tour of hostility this winter.

"Certainly our players haven't forgotten, they're calling him everything under the sun as they go past," Lehmann told an Australian radio station.

"I hope the Australian public are the same because that was just blatant cheating. I don't advocate walking but when you hit it to first slip it's pretty hard.

"From my point of view I just hope the Australian public give it to him right from the word go for the whole summer and I hope he cries and he goes home.

"I just hope everyone gets stuck into him because the way he's carried on and the way he's commented in public about it is ridiculous.

"He hit it to first slip ... and the biggest problem there is the poor umpire cops all the crap that he gets in paper and Stuart Broad makes them look like fools.

"From my point of view it's poor, so I hope the public actually get stuck into him."

Former England captain Nasser Hussain believes Lehmann's comments could create problems for Broad Down Under, not only on the field but off it too.

The 45-year-old pointed to the fracas earlier in the summer when David Warner was suspended from the Australia team for aiming a punch at Broad's England team-mate Joe Root in a Birmingham bar.

While Hussain is confident the players will be on their best behaviour, he believes the management of Broad off the field will be key.

"These boys go out on an evening, they don't sit in their hotel room," Hussain said.

"That's more likely where Broad will have to be careful because after these words, there might be some Aussie out there that - after having a few beers on an evening - wants to have a little go at Broad.

"Broad, especially after the Warner incident at a bar in Birmingham, and the management of Broad away from the cricket will have to be very, very careful.

"But these are grown men, they can look after themselves and know how to behave like England cricketers, hopefully."

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• On the first day of the Oval Test Australia seized the advantage by batting through the day to close on 307/4.

After surviving a difficult opening spell for the loss of David Warner, Shane Watson took the attack to England to register his third Test century, being out just before the close for 176.

He was helped by some wayward bowling by England's two debutants, Chris Woakes and Simon Kerrigan, and was also dropped by England captain Alastair Cook when on 104.

Woakes replaced the injured Tim Bresnan, and Kerrigan came in for Jonny Bairstow.

Watson even made use of the DRS system to overturn an lbw decision against him given by umpire Dharmasena - Woakes being the unlucky bowler.

England had a rare success when James Anderson bowled Australian captain Michael Clarke for seven with an excellent delivery, but Watson and Steven Smith added 145 for the fourth wicket, Smith finishing with an unbeaten 66.

It was the eighth time that Anderson had dismissed Clarke in Test cricket, more than any other bowler.