Quote Originally Posted by Magpies1959 View Post
BFP I guess you haven't heard of a thing called the spirit of the game. Bairstow had left his crease for a few balls before Carey decided to run him out, but similarly with the Mankad method of dismissal it is the done thing to give the batsman a warning. Bairstow did not 'get what he deserved' at all.
durham if you think cricket is boring, I guess you wouldn't have watched enough to have that opinion.
That was a herculean effort by England after being 45-4, after two close games, this series could still go either way.
It wasn’t Mankad, Bairstow wasn’t at the non striker’s end.

You could debate ‘the spirit of the game’ all day. The bottom line is that Bairstow shouldn’t have needlessly given Carey the opportunity to stump him. England can try to take the moral high ground here but in truth Bairstow wouldn’t have been switched on enough to get an Australian batsman out in that way. Which is one of the reasons we’re 2-0 down.