‘Bloody oath I would’: Travis Head says Jonny Bairstow threatens to run him out in the first Ashes Test
Australia’s middle-order batter Travis Head on Monday said that in the first Ashes Test at the Edgbaston, Jonny Bairstow had threatened to run him out in the exact same way the English batter got out at the Lord’s.
Explaining what exactly was happening in the middle, when Jonny Bairstow was stumped on Day five of the second Test.
“Jonny Bairstow was stumped,” Head said on LNR’s Willow Talk podcast.
“I reminded Jonny (Bairstow) last week I walked out of my crease in Edgbaston, and the ball got whipped in…”
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“And I sort of reminded Jonny last week I walked out of my crease at the end of an over.
“I quickly whipped my bat back and questioned Jonny on whether he would take the stumps and he said, ‘Bloody oath I would’, and ran off.”
A footage of Bairstow is doing the round where he is attempting a similar stumping to dismiss Australia No.3 Marnus Labuschagne on day three at Lord’s.
“We’d seen (Bairstow) try to do it and I’ve seen it happen a few times,” Head said.
Giving the reference to a South Australia vs New South Wales Sheffield Shield match, Head said: “Remember Tommy Cooper getting done at the SCG. ‘Nevs’ (Peter Nevill) threw the stumps down on him.
“If you put on the England hat, they’re disappointed. But the Australia (side), to the letter of the law, which was explained with Mitchell Starc’s catch the day before that it would be out…
“I know they’ve questioned it differently if they were in the same situation but with all the heat out of the air, saying that is a little bit different than in the moment.
England seamer Stuart Broad has stepped up the war of words against the Australian cricket team and it’s talk about the change in legacy since the infamous sandpaper gate during the tour of South Africa in 2018.
“(Stuart Broad’s) comments that the whole of Australia would wake up and Pat wouldn’t be captain … He seems to forget our fans are pretty loyal and pretty happy with the way the Australians are going about things,” said Head.
