“It’s within the rules of the game and that’s how it is!” – Jonny Bairstow (2014). How these words have come back to haunt Jonny Bairstow when he pulled off his own stumping back in 2014. Bairstow stumped Samit Patel after holding the ball close to the stumps and waited for him to lift his foot up before whipping off the bails.

Even better, he cited learning the move from English wicketkeeper Matt Prior against South Africa’s Morne Morkel at Lords. Now I have to remember back, I do not recall any booing at that match and I certainly do not recall the MCC members in an uproar calling the English team cheats as they walked through the Long Room to their changerooms. We are loving pointing out the hypocrisy here, I would do better to spell the word hypocrassy because that was what the MCC members’ behaviour was – crass.