Stuart Broad makes Pat Cummins point after controversial Jonny Bairstow Ashes dismissal

04.07.2023 - 10:47 manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Stuart Broad has expressed his belief that Australia captain Pat Cummins will regret his decision to uphold the appeal for the controversial stumping of England’s Jonny Bairstow at Lord’s.

The incident sparked a huge reaction from fans and members at the home of cricket, and the debate has yet to die down. Broad replaced Bairstow in the middle after the dismissal, before Australia went on to win and take a 2-0 lead in the Ashes.

Broad says that “zero advantage” came from Bairstow walking out of his crease and the England bowler reckons Cummins will think sticking with the appeal was the wrong course of action. “What amazed me, and what I told the Australians I could not believe as we left the field at lunch, was that not one senior player among them — and I very much understand in the emotion of the game that the bowler and wicketkeeper would have thought ‘that’s out’ — questioned what they had done,” Broad wrote in the Daily Mail. “Especially given what their team has been through over recent years, with all their cultural change.

Not one of them said ‘Hang on, lads. I’m not really sure about this’. Not one of them thought ‘He’s gaining no advantage. He’s not trying to get a run.

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