Smith, Warner ready to face the music at Lord's

Australia's Usman Khawaja (left), Aaron Finch (third left), David Warner (centre) and Steve Smith (right) attend a training session at Lord's Cricket Ground on Monday. - AFP

Australians asking fans at the Cricket World Cup to stop booing David Warner and Steve Smith was "a bit strange" as their former coach Darren Lehmann had once told supporters to jeer England's Stuart Broad, Jonny Bairstow said ahead of England's crunch match against Australia on Tuesday.
Smith and Warner returned to Australia's one-day international setup prior to the World Cup after serving a 12-month ban for their roles in a ball-tampering scandal in South Africa last year and the two have faced hostile crowds since.
India's captain Virat Kohli came to Smith's defence when he was booed by a section of the Indian support during their World Cup match earlier this month.
"I've read that Justin Langer, the Australia coach, and Virat Kohli have asked supporters not to boo Steve Smith and Warner. I'm not sure that makes any difference," England opening batsman Bairstow wrote in a column for The Telegraph.
"The fans will react however they want. It is a bit pointless pleading with them not to boo Smith or Warner."
Bairstow, who struck up an unlikely partnership with Warner in the Indian Premier League, said his fellow opener in the Sunrisers Hyderabad franchise was an "amazing cricketer" but that it was hypocritical to suggest he cannot be booed.
"There is a fine line as well. There was a time not that long ago when the then Australia coach, Darren Lehmann, was telling the Australia crowd to send Stuart Broad home crying," Bairstow said.
"I'm sure it was not meant maliciously but for Australians then to say 'do not boo these guys' is interesting. It has to work both ways, it can't just all be one way."
Meanwhile, England captain Eoin Morgan insists it is not his job to tell supporters how to react to Warner and Smith when the arch rivals meet on Tuesday.
"I'm not expecting anything. I think fans and supporters up and down the country will have different reactions, as they will around the world. So we'll see," Morgan said. - Reuters/AFP
told reporters on Monday.
"I'm not saying it is right or wrong. But to have the mentality (that) 'we can do it to you, but you cannot do it to us' is a bit strange."
During the 2013 Ashes in England, Lehmann had accused Broad of "blatant cheating" when he refused to walk after edging a ball to slip and the former coach had called on fans to send the fast bowler home from the return Ashes series in tears.
Meanwhile, England captain Eoin Morgan insists it is not his job to tell supporters how to react to Warner and Smith when the arch rivals meet on Tuesday.
Although the Australia clash is being played at Lord's - the 'home of cricket' where crowds are traditionally polite - Morgan refused to issue a plea to respect Warner and Smith.
"I'm not expecting anything. I think fans and supporters up and down the country will have different reactions, as they will around the world. So we'll see," Morgan told reporters on Monday.
"Supporters pay a lot of money, they do. And sport is beautiful in many ways, because it attracts people from far and wide.
"And you often see crowds offering support to both sets of players in the grounds."
Morgan added: "You don't know how sports fans will react.
"Just because two guys have been punished, served their punishment and returned to play, it doesn't mean they will be accepted back into the cricket community straight away. It will take time."