When Jonny Bairstow had attempted a fake run-out against Steve Smith

in England’s second innings, Bairstow ducked a slow bouncer from Cameron Green and ventured out of the crease thinking that the ball was already ‘dead’. Australian wicketkeeper Alex Carey broke the stumps and third umpire adjudged it stumped in favour of Australia.

Australia captain Pat Cummins believed it was totally fair play.

“It’s a rare dismissal. There was nothing untoward or sneaky. Jonny was leaving his crease every ball. He did it for four or five balls. You’re meant to stay in your crease in cricket. Bairstow has tried it with a lot of our guys.”

“I thought it was fair. You see Jonny (Bairstow) do it all the time, he did it on day one to David Warner, he did it in 2019 to Steve (Smith),” Cummins told reporters.

During the final test of 2019 Ashes series, England wicket-keeper Jonny Bairstow tricked Steve Smith into diving as the Aussie batter tried to back in the crease.When Steve Smith saw Bairstow getting ready to collect the throw to run him out, the Australian batsman dived thinking that he was going to be run out. But in reality, the throw came at the bowler’s end and Bairstow was just pretending to run him out.

After his innings, Steve Smith, referring to the incident, said: “Dirtied my clothes. I did not know where the ball us. He got me. Faked it.”

England coach Brendun McCullum said: “It was more about the spirit of the game. When you become older and more mature you realize the game and the spirit of it is something you need to protect. You have to make decisions in the moment and they can have effects on games and people’s characters. By the letter of the law he is out. Jonny was not trying to take a run and the umpires had called ‘Over.’ It is one of those difficult ones to swallow. You look at the small margins, it is incredibly disappointing.”

Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has extended his support to Australian wicketkeeper Alex Carey after his run out of England batter Jonny Bairstow created controversy,.

“We must get one fact loud and clear. The keeper would never have a dip at the stumps from that far out in a test match unless he or his team have noticed a pattern of the batter leaving his crease after leaving a ball like Bairstow did. We must applaud the game smarts of the individual rather than skewing it towards unfair play or spirit of the game,” Ashwin tweeted.