God help me - the Test Cricket thread

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I get Bairstow was out but I agree with Brad Hogg that it's not a good look and I wouldn't have done what Carey did without warning the batsman first in a Mankad fashion.
Bairstow wasn't attempting a run and had remarked his guard and yep he was out officially but now it's just going to open the doors for all teams to try that stuff on and like the bouncer war it was us initiating it then the English going overboard and now they will be desperate to Mankad/Carey our blokes back and it just makes for poor unattractive cricket. It could have cost us the game too as Stokes and Broad really hardened their resolve and involved the crowd. I reckon if Carey had his time over he would have done it differently.
The Starc catch was a poor 3rd umpiring decision, Duckett had walked off .
That law about the ball in the ground when landing needs changing, it was a clean catch and he was only supporting his body landing on the ground.
Right result though in this game and makes for a fiery 3rd test.....

Carey threw the ball absolutely immediately on taking it while Bairstow was actually in his crease. He left the crease while the ball was in-flight and live towards the stumps. Warnings for Mankads, no warnings for stumpings. If the ball is live, and if a ball being thrown it is live, then stay in your crease until the umpire calls over. His own idiotic fault.

Got to love the hypocrisy of McCullum and Broad. Imagine taking lectures off Broad for something like this.