All-rounder Moeen Ali also comments that Bairstow’s habit of stepping so quickly out of his crease after a ball is bowled opened him up to the type of dismissal that Carey pulled off.
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“I always felt Jonny leaves his crease so early, he leaves the ball and just walks straight down, and I always felt he leaves early,” Moeen said.
Bairstow does not offer much of an opinion in this documentary, but he was previously quoted as offering a parallel between the stumping dismissal and his view that Australia claimed unfair catches during the series.
Among other insights, the documentary, titled The Ashes 2023: Our Take, shows how Stuart Broad harangued the Australian team both before and after the lunch break, either side of the wild scenes in the Lord’s Long Room that resulted in one MCC member being expelled and two others handed long-term bans.
“Not one single player went, ‘Lads this is a really bad decision’,” Broad tells David Warner and Steve Smith in particular. “I can’t believe one of you hasn’t gone, ‘This is a terrible decision’. And then you have 40,000 people booing you, in there [in the Long Room booing you].”
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After the Ashes, Bairstow struggled at the ODI World Cup, on a tour of India and in the Twenty20 World Cup that ended over the weekend. He and his erstwhile wicketkeeping rival Ben Foakes have both been left out of the England Test squad for the home summer, replaced by Surrey talent Jamie Smith.
“Generally, his form, in all formats, has just been going slightly in the wrong direction,” England team director Rob Key said of Bairstow. “It’s an arduous task being a keeper and you want someone who can back up series after series. We weren’t convinced that Jonny would be able to do that, especially at the stage of his career that he’s at.”
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