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Make English nemesis Stuart Broad cry in Ashes summer, Darren Lehmann tells Aussie fans

DARREN Lehmann has asked angry Aussie cricket fans to send "cheating" English nemesis Stuart Broad home from this Ashes summer in tears.

DARREN Lehmann has asked angry Aussie cricket fans to send "cheating" English nemesis Stuart Broad home from this Ashes summer in tears.

The Australian coach lit the fuse for tonight's final Ashes Test at The Oval by revealing his team had not forgiven Broad for failing to walk off a blatant edge to first slip in the series opener at Trent Bridge.

Broad yesterday admitted the obvious: that he'd nicked the ball during a match-turning innings.

Lehmann told Triple M the English all-rounder deserved a summer of jeers from angry Aussie crowds in the return Ashes series.

"Certainly our players haven't forgotten, they're calling him everything under the sun as they go past," Lehmann said.

"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."

The first home Ashes Test starts on November 21 at the Gabba. Australia will try to avoid a 4-0 Ashes loss, its worst England tour for 133 years, when play starts in London tonight.

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