Ashes LIVE: England just four wickets away from losing the series as one Aussie star risks being axed by the umpires

Starc was handed two official warnings yesterday for landing on the protected area up the middle of the wicket, but countered by saying he only did so because he didn’t want to injure himself by placing his foot in a foot-hole during his delivery stride.

If the umps believe he has done it again today, they have the power to pull him from the attack.

Starc called for Australia to adopt the English method of repairing foot-holes mid-match by smashing them flat.

‘I don’t think they do it anywhere in Australia,’ he said.

‘Obviously in England they re-do them every evening or every morning. Maybe that’s something for the ‘groundies’ around Australia to look at.’