Ashes 2023: Bairstow’s dismissal is ‘just as plain as day out’, says Mark Butcher
1 year, 6 months ago

Ashes 2023: Bairstow’s dismissal is ‘just as plain as day out’, says Mark Butcher

The Hindu  

Former England opener Mark Butcher is confused by the uproar over Jonny Bairstow’s dismissal in the second Ashes Test, saying that “it’s just as plain as day out” and the chatter in cricketing circles is “nonsense”. Lord’s was the hotbed of controversy on the final day of the second Test when England batter Bairstow ducked a slow bouncer from Australia’s Cameron Green and ventured out of the crease thinking that the ball was already ‘dead’. READ: England’s Bazball faces reckoning as big boys Australia come calling Butcher, 50, who played 71 Tests and scored 4,288 runs, said almost everyone he had spoken to following the incident thinks Bairstow was out. “And what’s worse, people who have definitely done worse things being holier than thou on social media saying how awful the whole thing is and how you would never have done anything like it.

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