Australia’s cricket team has reportedly requested extra security for the third Ashes clash against England amid the “crazy” fallout from the ongoing stumping controversy.

The Australian reports that Steve Smith’s mother and the 11-year-old child of a staff member had negative encounters with abusive England fans.

Officials are concerned fans’ emotions could boil over at Headingly when the third Ashes Test begins on Thursday.

Smith’s mother left early to escape taunting fans who recognised her nationality, The Australian writes.

A staff member’s child had a similar encounter with English supporters.

Australian Cricketers’ Association boss Todd Greenberg said the ongoing reaction to Jonny Bairstow’s dismissal was “crazy”.

Greenberg told 2GB radio that “the pile-on on this particular issue has just been insane”.

“But as I keep saying, the focus for our players is about playing good cricket on the field and that’s what I have been doing.”

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese added more fuel to the furore when again asked for his take on breakfast television.

Mr Albanese had blunt words for the English complainers.

“Harden up,” said Mr Albanese on the Today Show.

Mr Albanese said Australians who were taught to play cricket at school knew how to avoid Bairstow’s fate on the field.

“When I was learning to play cricket like very Australian does in primary school, the nuns at St Joseph’s in Camperdown knew, ‘Put your bat behind the crease, stay in your crease.

“It’s not hard, it’s not hard,” he laughed.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews also threw his opinion into the ring, branding Bairstow a “sore loser”.

“He was out of his crease,” Mr Andrews said.

“So he is out. No one likes a sore loser. You’re out of your crease. Bails are off. You are gone. Walk, it’s simple.”

England’s main issue has been that it believes Bairstow thought the ball was dead at the end of the over when he wandered out of his crease and was stumped by Alex Carey.

But Australia has continued to defend the dismissal, noting that Carey immediately threw the ball after catching it, given Bairstow regularly walked out of his crease after deliveries.

Earlier, Australia batsman Travis Head claimed Bairstow was a hypocrite as he had threatened to stump him when he left his crease at Edgbaston.

“I reminded Jonny last week I walked out of my crease at the end of an over,” Head told the Willow Talk podcast.

“I quickly whipped my bat back and questioned Jonny on whether he would take the stumps and he said, ‘Bloody oath I would’, and ran off.

“I reminded him [of that]. Whether he remembered saying that or not. Two days before he also tried to throw Marnus [Labuschagne]’s stumps down too.”