Stuart Broad could not hide his disdain for Alex Carey’s antics after one of the most controversial Ashes episodes at Lord’s on Sunday.
Australia wicket-keeper Carey sparked huge drama and split cricketing opinion on a day of immense drama at the home of English cricket after his quick thinking claimed the wicket of Jonny Bairstow on a fiery fifth morning of the second Test.
Bairstow was crucially dismissed after ducking a bouncer from Cameron Green and leaving his crease believing the ball had already gone dead.
However, he did not realise that Carey had already collected the ball and thrown in at the stumps anyway in one motion with the umpires yet to call it an over, being out of his ground by the time the ball collided with the stumps.
The controversial dismissal - legal by the laws of the game but once again set to stoke up significant debate over the spirit of the sport - was given after review by the third umpire, provoking disbelief among the home fans and players at Lord’s, where the crowd were quick to register their disgust and heavily booed and jeered.
The atmosphere in the Pavilion’s Long Room as the Australian players made their way back inside for lunch was like nothing seen before amid a febrile atmosphere at Lord’s, with Australian duo David Warner and Usman Khawaja seemingly involved in ugly verbal altercations with Lord’s members.
That quickly led to a demand for an investigation from Cricket Australia and a swift apology from the MCC.
Stuart Broad was the man to replace Bairstow in the middle and made no secret of his opinions on the controversy, which was evident when the stump microphone caught him telling Carey: “That’s all you’re ever going to be remembered for, that.
“That’s all you’ll ever be remembered for.”
Broad also vented his frustration at Australia’s Marnus Labuschagne, saying of the dismissal of Bairstow: “It’s the worst thing I’ve ever seen in cricket.”
