‘I quickly whipped my bat back and questioned Jonny’-Travis Head claims Bairstow tried to dismiss him in a similar manner.

Australia’s middle-order batsman, Travis Head, has injected fresh controversy into the debate surrounding Jonny Bairstow’s contentious dismissal in the recently concluded second Ashes Test. In a surprising revelation, Head disclosed that Bairstow had expressed his willingness to employ the same tactics used by Alex Carey in the first Test.

Amidst the prevailing narrative in the English media, which portrays Bairstow as a victim of an unsporting mode of dismissal, Head’s disclosure adds a new dimension to the ongoing controversy. According to Head, during a conversation between the two players in the first Ashes Test, Bairstow had explicitly threatened to replicate Carey’s actions in order to dismiss the left-handed batsman.

Head in podcast said “Jonny wasn’t too pleased. And I sort of reminded Jonny last week I walked out of my crease at the end of an over. I quickly whipped my bat back and questioned Jonny on whether he would take the stumps and he said, ‘Bloody oath I would’, and ran off,”.