07-04-2023, 07:49 AM
So you still didn’t address Bairstow applying the same tactic days earlier. Or Stuart Broad, best remembered by many world cricket fans for refusing to walk after obviously nicking a shot through to the keeper back in 2013, was quick to inform Carey that his dismissal of Bairstow would be the defining one of his career. He conveniently forgot he was at the centre of a similar appeal against New Zealand's Colin de Grandhomme last year.
Or Brendan McCullum, who labelled Bairstow's dismissal the 'worst thing' he'd seen in cricket and said he'd hesitate to have a beer with the Australian side as a result, also has form of his own. On no less than three occasions - against Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan in 2006, Zimbabwe's Chris Mpofu in 2005 and England's Paul Collingwood in 2009 - McCullum threw down the stumps of a batsman otherwise not aware that the ball had not been declared dead by the on-field umpire.
Or that one time in a one-day match against Ireland in 2019, England's keeper Ben Foakes secured a stumping against Ireland's Andy Balbirnie, holding on to the ball for a remarkably long time, waiting for the batsman to lift the foot he had grounded behind the crease for several seconds. The move was hailed as 'quick thinking' in a highlight still available on the ECB website.
Save your high moral ground ‘It’s just not cricket’ bullshit for someone, or a mate of someone, who doesn’t follow the game
Or Brendan McCullum, who labelled Bairstow's dismissal the 'worst thing' he'd seen in cricket and said he'd hesitate to have a beer with the Australian side as a result, also has form of his own. On no less than three occasions - against Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan in 2006, Zimbabwe's Chris Mpofu in 2005 and England's Paul Collingwood in 2009 - McCullum threw down the stumps of a batsman otherwise not aware that the ball had not been declared dead by the on-field umpire.
Or that one time in a one-day match against Ireland in 2019, England's keeper Ben Foakes secured a stumping against Ireland's Andy Balbirnie, holding on to the ball for a remarkably long time, waiting for the batsman to lift the foot he had grounded behind the crease for several seconds. The move was hailed as 'quick thinking' in a highlight still available on the ECB website.
Save your high moral ground ‘It’s just not cricket’ bullshit for someone, or a mate of someone, who doesn’t follow the game
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