FOR a nation whose modern history began with a king throwing down the stumps of several wives – none of whom were even out of their crease – England’s pretended reverence for sportsmanship has always struck me as a little rich. The current monarch’s first spouse was also bounced and run out. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has joined in to condemn Australian keeper Alex Carey’s dismissal of batsman Bairstow at Lord’s on Sunday. Anthony Albanese has replied in jingoistic kind, equally eager to appear amenable to serfs. Notwithstanding the Long Room loutishness that Aussies, of all people, shouldn’t whinge about, it’s all theatre. The Ashes benefits by duelling new mythologies of honour defiled and reckonings craved. I don’t watch the game – the word “batter” in commentary being reason enough for a Geoffrey B – but I was a glovesman as a lad. I know the gentlemanly and savvy player respectfully grounds his bat till “over” is called. Viv Richards wouldn’t go walk-about like Bairstow did. And Jonny, you’re no Master Blaster.
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The English invented cricket and wrote the rules now their wicket keeper and fans admit they are ignorant of the rules of the game they invented. You would think as a wicket keeper he would have read up on the rules regarding stumping.
Bairstow stumped?
The members of the long room have a unique privilege in that they have direct access to the players. That has been compromised by the behaviour of at least two of them.
I’d add, that it was Bairstow, Stokes and McCullum who dishonoured the spirit of the game, Bairstow attempted the same legitimate tactic in the first innings, he was just less competent at it, then oddly they all claimed the dismissal should have come with a warning and or retraction. Using the spirit of the game argument to stop players being punished for randomly wandering out of their crease before the ball is dead is a sad tactic of sore loser. Test match cricket is supposed to be a test of wits as well as skill, ability and physicality. It would do the English no harm to admit Bairstow failed on the wit measure.
WG Grace is reported to have used exactly the same tactic, as did McCullum at least 3 times, including to run out the batting talent-challenged Muttiah Muralitheran when he wandered out of his ground to congratulate a teammate on a century.
It’s a sad sign of the times that an erstwhile educated cricket audience would get so fired up about a situation every competent u10 cricket coach addresses with their charges instead of rightly bagging the poor cricket IQ and sportsmanship of Bairstow.
I have a lot of time for Mr Bairstow.
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Well done those batsmen! I would’ve liked Bairstow to cover drive the guy’s balls to the boundary though, but to be fair England were in the field at the time.
Bairstow attempted the same legitimate tactic in the first innings, he was just less competent at it, then oddly they all claimed the dismissal should have come with a warning and or retraction.
Completely different circumstances.
Labuschagne was intentionally batting outside the crease, negating the chances of a successful LBW.
Basically, the English are saying that stumpings on the final ball of an over don’t count.
Bairstow was taking liberties, essentially daring Carey to stump him.
Doing that in the circumstances the team gound itself in, the guy just isn’t smart enough to play Test Cricket.
Yeah, they probly coulda just warned him, perhaps if he’d walked after being given they mighta called him back, but the bottom line is that Jonny is just a dumb Bairstow.
Yes it was well done. Good to see players so proactive in protecting the pitch.
Regarding the stumping. Cricket is such a weird and wonderful game. It is the quintessential English game due to its eccentricity. Typical of this is the ‘spirit of the game’ as opposed to the rules. Sometimes players are allowed to break the rules e.g. Murali chucking the ball, then when the rule is enforced, they change the rule. Sometimes playing within the rules is clearly outside ‘the spirit of the game’ e.g. the Chappell underarm. Other times it is not so clear cut e.g. Mankading, which is still withing the rules but bowlers are expected to give the batsman a warning before running him out.
This makes no sense to me, as the batsman is clearly taking an unfair advantage. In the case of the Bairstow stumping, Bairstow was not taking an advantage, so if the ‘spirit of the game’ is consistent, then Carey should have warned him.
To be clear though, I don’t think a warning should be given for mankading or end of over stumpings. Stick to the rules.
Bairstow was playing mind games, then when he came unstuck he asked “Who, Me?”
Didn’t Gracey used to stand fast sometimes after he was dismissed – too irked to leave and too revered to argue with?
I doubt any white player could have got away with his career of absurd cheating. He should have been told from the start that he was throwing.
Murali’s captain, Ranatunga, in an early example of it, played the “race card” to perfection.
After the ICC “cleared” Murali, it would have been a very brave (or foolish) umpire who called him again.
Test match cricket is supposed to be a test of wits as well as skill, ability and physicality
and a test of your understanding of the rules. It’s not a schoolboy game where you all get a prize for competing.
An old cricketer from Sorrento told me he had Bill Ponsford plumb LBW first ball in a Match at Sorrento Cricket Ground in the 30s.
The Umpire didn’t give him out, the crowd had come to see Ponsford bat.
Saw the entire “incident” last night for the first time, with no interruptions. Bairstow was out, the ball was clearly still in play.
It shouldn’t have been a controversy, every cricketer knows the ball is dead when the umpires call over, they didn’t and he wandered out of his crease.
what sam1950 is saying…
It will be standing room only for the remainder of the series and wall to wall commentary.
Great opportunity for the filth political elitists to enmesh England deeper into EU/NATO/WEF filth while the population are distracted.
Jonny tries to sneak a single…..or else antagonize Carey by making out he’s trying to sneak a single…and he gets stumped. Is this really all there is?
Players miscalculate / mis-hit on every dismissal. They try to leave a ball and it nicks the bat for a catch. They try for a second run but don’t notice the fielder scooping up the ball for a run-out hit. they dance about and knock the bails off their own stumps. Etc. Jonny made an error and paid for it.
I’m guessing ALL these Pommy whingers will be more careful….now understanding the Laws of Cricket a bit better….now, and valiantly accept the 5-0 drubbing they are destined to be given.
BTW: How much better still it would be if we went back to the six test Ashes Series and a 6-0 flogging…,eh lads?
The amount of media commentators, journalists and ex-cricketers who didn’t know this, is the main problem.
In the pre DRS era this might have been a point.
Any competent Under 10s coach will teach the kids to keep their bat grounded.
I think it was more to negate the swing, but either or, he was stood 2m down the pitch out of his crease so his stumps were fair game. Bairstow never left his crease.
It was shit house by Carey, a dog act, but its the ashes, heat of the moment and the rules are he’s out.
The poor sportsmanship has been the whining ever since.
Has anyone discussed the similarity between Carey’s magnificent feat, and Mankads?….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mankading_incidents_in_cricket
Bowler comes running in. Batsman at the runner’s end next to where the bowler will release the ball steps forward in anticipation of a run and the bowler immediately removes the runner’s bails instead of bowling……
From Wiki: “Some observers feel that dismissing a batter in this way is poor sporting etiquette and against the spirit of the game…..According to the former convention, a generous bowler may warn a batter to stay in their crease rather than to take their wicket, but this is not required by the Laws of Cricket nor the MCC guidance notes on the Spirit of Cricket. When the run out has happened in first-class cricket, it has on occasion provoked debate.[13] Such dismissals have always occurred and continue to divide opinion.[14][15]
I suppose a “generous wicketkeeper” might have warned Bairstow, but then he woulda stopped doing it maybe. Better to get him out and win the test Next thing they’ll be claiming that Warnie shoulda announced “if you step forward into my Doosra, the next ball will be a flipper” How “generous” is generous FFS?
Mankads happened when a weak bowling side couldn’t get the opposition out.
See: Griffith running out Redpath, 1969.
Worse than a Mankad I’d say.
Poms some chance while Bairstow was still there, no chance afterwards.