England and Australia are utterly divided over Jonny Bairstow‘s controversial dismissal at Lord’s within the ongoing Ashes collection. Laws of cricket vs Spirit of Cricket debate continues to develop and it goes with out saying which set of former cricketers are taking whose aspect. Former England cricketer Geoffrey Boycott was livid with the Aussie group demanding a public apology from them and now former Australia cricketer Mark Taylor has joined the bandwagon giving his take on the controversy.
For the unversed, Bairstow had wandered off the crease after ducking beneath a supply from Cameron Green and wicketkeeper Alex Carey sensed a possibility to stump him. The matter was taken to the third umpire who adjudged the batter out a lot to the frustration of England group and crowd. Since then there was a furore amongst English supporters. But Taylor has backed the Australian group and skipper Pat Cummins for his or her actions.
Cummins not withdrawing his attraction has additionally not gone down nicely with many however Mark Taylor has no points with the dismissal. “The batsmen have to remember there are 10 ways to get out in Test cricket. One of them is by being stumped, and it doesn’t say in the laws it has to be off a slow bowler. If you’re going to wander out of your crease doing whatever you want to do, be mindful that you can be stumped,” Taylor wrote in his column for Sydney Morning Herald.
“I’ve got no issue at all with what Pat Cummins and the Australian team did during the last day of the Lord’s Test when they stumped Jonny Bairstow. Jonny Bairstow found himself on the receiving end of a controversial stumping, but two days earlier tried to pull one off himself — the incident drawing parallels with England head coach Brendon McCullum when he stumped Paul Collingwood,” Taylor additional wrote.
After the incident, there was an issue within the Lord’s Long Room as nicely the place the MCC members had loads of issues to say to the Australians, particularly Usman Khawaja. MCC has already taken motion on three members suspending them with speedy impact. Mark Taylor expressed his disappointment over the incident however lauded the MCC CEO for taking fast motion.
“I’m disenchanted with the way in which the Australian gamers had been handled after finishing this solely authentic dismissal, significantly within the Long Room (at Lord’s).
I’ll congratulate Guy Lavender, CEO of the MCC, for getting onto it moderately rapidly, calming down the MCC members and suspending three of them. However, I feel that is the minimal quantity they should do at this stage,” Taylor additional added.
