Ashes 2023: Stuart Broad questions Australian players' silence on Jonny Bairstow dismissal

English pacer Stuart Broad has expressed shock at the silence from Australian veterans on Jonny Bairstow’s dismissal on Day 5 of the second Ashes Test, which Australia won by 43 runs.

“What amazed me, and what I told the Australians I could not believe as we left the field at lunch, was that not one senior player among them — and I very much understand in the emotion of the game that the bowler and wicketkeeper would have thought ‘that’s out’ — questioned what they had done,” he wrote in his Daily Mail column.

The incident happened when England were still 175 runs short of the 371 run target at a loss of five wickets. Bairstow ducked a short ball from Cameron Green, and as it was the last ball of the over, he moved across to join his skipper Ben Stokes at the other end.

But he didn’t know that Alex Carey behind the wickets had taken a shot at the stumps after he walked out. A surprised Bairstow looked back to a stumps dislodged. The on-field umpires took it upstairs with the TV umpire lawfully adjudging it to be out.

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