Although Mark Taylor, a former Australian cricketer, has warned cricketers that batters should watch the wickets if they consider stumping to be one of the ways to take wickets and follow the game’s laws.
Though the controversial sacking of England’s Jonny Bairstow on the final day of the second Ashes Test has raised questions of perplexity and reignited the ‘spirit of the game’ debate over the ‘laws of the game’.
On the fifth day, Bairstow dodged a slower goalkeeper in Cameron Green’s over and left the box when he thought the ball was over. But at the same time, Australia’s wicketkeeper Alex Carey hit the straight shot stumps and only then was motioned by Marius Erasmus to retire.
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However, “the batsmen need to remember that there are 10 ways out in Test cricket. One is stumped, and the rules don’t say it has to be the slowest pitcher. If you’re going to get out of your fold and do whatever you want, be aware that you might be stumped,” Mark Taylor said to the sources. He added, “So your job as a batsman is to stay back in your crease until the ball is over.”
Taylor admitted that the stumping method had been justified as he has been playing and insisted there was nothing wrong with what the Pat Cummins-led team did this time.
“I had no problem with Pat Cummins and the Australian team stumping Jonny Bairstow on the last day of the Lord’s Test. This is a valid method of dismissal and has been around for as long as I have known about the game of cricket. I have seen a lot of wicketkeepers throwing the ball towards the stumps to try and take the batsman’s wicket,” Taylor said.
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Taylor also recalled that he was heavily criticized for a controversial stumping just two days before Bairstow’s controversial dismissal. Bairstow’s sacking is similar to the 2009 incident between former New Zealand and current England head coach Brendon McCullum and former England cricketer Paul Collingwood.
In a Champions Trophy match in Johannesburg, Collingwood came out of the box after playing the last ball of the over, and Brendon McCullum was standing behind the stumps and flicked the ball into the stumps. Taylor admitted that he was disappointed with how the Australian team was treated after the match.