Watch: Australia rug side Canberra Raiders recreate Jonny Bairstow dismissal

Australian rug side Canberra Raiders recreated Jonny Bairstow’s controversial dismissal in the second Test at Lord’s after Jordan Rapana scored against St George Illawarra Dragons.
The corner flag was used as makeshift stumps and the players took a dig at the dismissal re-enacting the entire incident before bursting into celebration.
The Bairstow dismissal has dominated headlines with both Australians and the Englishmen going loggerheads over the spirit of cricket debate. This act the Raiders will undoubtedly add more fuel to the fire.

One of the all time try celebrations 🏏#WeAreRaiders pic.twitter.com/UMb4ltdb
— Canberra Raiders (@RaidersCanberra) July 7, 2023
Bairstow was adjudged stumped off Cameron Green’s bowling off the last ball of the 52nd over in England’s second innings pursuit of 371.
The sequence of the one-ball event was this. After ducking under Green’s bouncer, Bairstow wandered out of the crease without grounding his bat, presuming that the ball was dead and the over was completed.
But before he even reached the middle of the pitch to meet Ben Stokes, he could hear Australians celebrating. Shocked, he turned around to see the bails broken. The alert Australian wicket-keeper Alex Carey had under-armed the ball to the stumps and Bairstow was out of the ground. The on-field umpires passed on the decision to the television, Marais Erasmus, who gave him out.
Boos and jeers greeted the decision as Bairstow trudged back to the dressing room shaking his head in disbelief. The dismissal was the book, as it mandates that “the ball shall be considered to be dead when it is clear to the bowler’s end umpire that the fielding side and both batters at the wicket have ceased to regard it as in play.”
But whether it was within the spirit of the game polarised the cricketing world. England captain Ben Stokes said he would have indeed considered the spirit of the game before appealing. “If the shoe was on the other foot, I would have put more pressure on the umpires and asked whether they had called over and had a deep think about the whole spirit of the game and would I want do something like that,” he said, before emphasising that he would not want to win the this way. “Would I want to win a game in this manner? The answer for me is no.”