LONDON: Australia wicket-keeper Brad Haddin insi­sts there will be no changes in his on-field approach des­pite calls for an end to ‘sledging’ during the upcoming Ashes.

Ahead of next week’s first Test in Cardiff, England paceman James Anderson has contrasted the sporting atmosphere which prevailed during his side’s recent series with New Zealand to the bitterness of the last Ashes campaign, which Australia won 5-0 on home soil in 2013-14, and urged an end to ‘sledging’ or verbal abuse of opposition players on the field.

But Haddin was quick to point out that Anderson himself had not been shy of dishing out the ‘verbals’ during previous Ashes campaigns.

“They start half of it! What about Jimmy Anderson? He has called for peace hasn’t he? He better look at himself in the mirror,” said Haddin.

“I have never played in an Ashes campaign where things have got out of hand, this one will be no different,” said the 37-year-old Haddin.

Published in Dawn, July 2nd, 2015

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