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Cmarsh said:


I may be late to the chase here, but I didn't realise that Bairstow was routinely walking out of his crease after every ball before the "spirit of cricket" incident, as the above video shows.

So Bairstow was already very much in the habit of walking out of his crease. The English argument against Bairstow's dismissal has relied upon him believing it was the end of the over so that's why he walked out of his crease. To me, Bairstow seemed to have this air of entitlement in his mind that he could routinely walk out of his crease and it be all fine. But clearly the Aussies were within their rights to attempt a run out. If Carey threw down the stumps the ball before, they certainly couldnt use the "he thought it was the end of the over" defence.
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None of it matters.

It's out. **** off, Jonny. You were out. It's not that ****ing hard to stand still. There's no 'unspoken rules', 'gentleman's sport' malarkey going on here: you stay in your crease until the ball's dead, and you're not the one who gets to decide when the ball's dead.
 
Terrible from everyone involved except the wicket keeper.

Very poor by the umpires who should not have indulged the complaints at all.

Ridiculous dissent from the batting side.

Terrible leadership from Flower and others from his team. Should have backed the keeper up.

Nothing wrong at all with what happened. There is no way the ball was dead or over had been called. Had the keeper missed it and the batsmen stole another run, would the umpire have signalled dead or allowed it? We all know the run would have been allowed.
 

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If the umps did call over while the ball is still in flight being returned to the keeper, then why? The ball is still live. It appears they have called over prematurely.

In any case, a batter just can't leave their crease thinking it's ok, as Bairstow did and now Curran as well.
 

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