Ben Stokes says he would have withdrawn the controversial appeal that saw Jonny Bairstow dismissed on a dramatic final day of the Second Ashes Test at Lord’s.
Bairstow was, technically speaking, out stumped by Alex Carey having ducked a Cameron Green bouncer and then wandered out of his crease, wrongly assuming that the ball had gone dead and the over concluded. Carey gathered and took a shot at the stumps, with Bairstow out of his ground by the time the ball collided and sent on his way after an umpire’s review.
