Speaking after the second Ashes Test at Lords, Australia captain Pat Cummins says the controversial stumping of England skipper Johnny Bairstow was ‘fair’. ‘You see Johnny do it all the time,’ Cummins said. England skipper Ben Stokes said the while Bairstow’s dismissal was ‘out’, he would not have wanted to win a game ‘with something like that happening’. ‘If I was fielding captain I would have had a real think about the spirit of the game,’ Stokes said. Asked about a moment earlier in the match when Bairstow had attempted his own stumping in the same fashion, Stokes said whether or not it was the end of the over makes a ‘massive difference’
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