I think the time is right for Bairstow to finally hit a decent score. The looks he gave Carey here imply that he is fully concentrating and out for revenge.
Well....if ' old iron gloves ' is to make up for his mistakes behind the stumps so far in this series, then he needs to make something in the region of 240.I think the time is right for Bairstow to finally hit a decent score. The looks he gave Carey here imply that he is fully concentrating and out for revenge.
Bairstow makes point of waiting in his crease
Jonny Bairstow makes a point of waiting to leave his crease after a ball goes through to Alex Carey, clearly hoping to avoid a repeat of his controversial stumping at Lord's.www.bbc.co.uk
We have to mop up the tail after the chances we give the better batsmen. They should have been 98-5 and nowhere near 150. Once again, a wonderful opportunity goes begging. Bairstow again ( and again and again ) and Root inexplicably drops a dolly. I know Headingly isn't great for sighting the ball. Keith Fletcher dropped four there once and got dogs abuse from the locals. Surprise, surprise Root and Bairstow get away with silence and murmuring.
Got nothing to do with the spirit of the game though. The batman could have been given out for obstructing the fielder if he wasn't run out.
Indeed. There seem to be a few ex players trying to excuse Carey. Perhaps guilty consciences driving this whataboutery. A cheat is a cheat and professional sportsmen are the biggest cheats going.
Simster, the beauty of NSC, I'm going totally the other way.
What, and then we'll skittle them for 140 with Root taking 4 slip catches and Bairstow 2 stumpings and a salmon-esque diving catch?
To be fair to the Yorkshire crowd (although Lord knows why anybody would want to do that), I think the major irritation with Fletcher was that he'd been picked over Phil Sharpe, who was considered the best slip fielder in the country and had been pulled out of the Yorkshire XI on the morning of championship game to be in the squad.
It wouldn't be the first time they've done it. Edgbaston 2022, anyone ?
I guess the main reason sitting in the pavilion is more expensive is that it means you don't have to look at it.
I think the worst part of the discussions around the Carey/Bairstow incident is the people labelling Carey (and the rest of the Aussie team by extension) as "cheats" when everyone who is responsible for setting, administering, and enforcing the laws of the game is in full agreement that it was a legal dismissal. The fact you disagree with that form of dismissal being within the "spirit of the game" does not mean they've cheated. IMO the fact you're labelling them as cheats is exposing your own bias and you need to step back and reconsider whether your opinion is being affected by that.
I seem to remember Peter Willey putting a chance down right at the death in the Leeds Test in 1981, possibly off Alderman.
Something like that, although Willey's from Durham and played for Northants.
Sorry, nobody has disputed it's a legal dismissal, but so is the Mankad run out. Personally I think Mankad is fair enough if a warning has been given, as that is the non striking batsman trying to gain an advantage. But this? Where is the justification for what Carey did?
