Up Late host Ben Harvey has bowled a head-hunting bouncer at Ashes whinger Piers Morgan after the British personality accused the Australian cricket team of trashing the spirit of sportsmanship by stumping England’s Jonny Bairstow when he strayed from his crease.
And Harvey has delivered the British Prime Minister a withering wakeup call, telling wicket-whiner Rishi Sunak to stop fretting about the cricket score and start fixing the “basket case” of a country that passes for modern England.
The latest episode of Up Late with Ben Harvey focuses on the fallout from the “controversial” play that got everyone talking – Bairstow’s stumping by Australia’s Alex Carey on the final day at Lords.
Former players, politicians and experts have all weighed in, with many accusing Bairstow and England of breathtaking hypocrisy.
Harvey goes one acerbic step further when explaining why Morgan, a former editor of the News of the World and the Daily Mirror, is hypocrite-in-chief for complaining about the dismissal.
“Piers Morgan has taken the high moral ground, a position completely foreign to him,” Harvey says, before eviscerating Morgan for holding up Italian footballer Paolo Di Canio as a hero of sportsmanship.
“Piers didn’t mention that Di Canio is a self-confessed fascist who was previously suspended for 11 matches for this,” Harvey says, as footage of Di Canio shoving an umpire to the ground is played.
Harvey then roasts the British PM for complaining about the cricket.
“Rishi Sunak should be worried about other things,” he says. “It’s not just the English cricket team that’s a basket case at the moment, it’s the whole country.
“Everyone’s on strike and there are public health alerts on the coast because 170 years after London’s sewage system was invented they’re still pumping their own s*** straight into the ocean”.
And in a sign-off sure to fire-up every Pom, Harvey says the collapse of the company supplying water to London probably won’t worry anyone because “a nation of soap dodgers won’t be worried about not having a shower”.