It's The Ashes (again)

[Ted Maul]

On that dismissal. 

I'm not a fan of it, but nor do I think it deserves the moral outrage it appears to have produced.

It seems Bairstow tried to do a similar thing earlier in the test...is it only against the spirit of the game if it is done successfully. 

If cricket fans want to complain about something, try the pitches. They are not doing enough for the bowlers. Both sides could and should have got over 500 in their first innings, not sure that makes for good test cricket.

The best 2 sessions I watched in this test..and sadly I didn't see any live yesterday...we're afternoon session on third day. The aussie batsmen tested by difficult conditions and good bowling. And the evening session on day 4. Initially great bowling by Starc and Cummins, and then great batting by Duckett and Stokes in difficult circumstances.

Bairstow's attempt wasn't the same as Carey's. The instance in question, Marnus was batting out of his crease to try and mitigate a moving ball, thus gaining advantage of it. Bairstow was attempting to run him out/stump him, but Marnus dragged his foot back in anyway. All aware, all normal cricket stuff. YJB even stood up to the stumps when Jimmy was bowling later to stop Marnus batting out of his crease.

In the case of the Bairstow wicket, he wasn't trying to gain an advantage. But it's still stupid, and it's excellent from Carey. Like I said, I don't particularly have any issue with it. You're correct, the moral outrage about the situation is absolutely ridiculous.

If the Aussies haven’t got the bottle to warn the batsman that that they will try to stump him it’s totally against the spirit of the game. If Carey was that concerned he should have sto up to the stumps to stop him, just like Bairstow did. 
Bairstow was not trying to take advantage of anything he was going to talk to his partner.
No matter what any of you think it’s totally against the spirit of the game, the Aussies only think this was ok because they did it. If the boot was on the other foot there would have been outrage.

So let me know if you are/were equally outraged by the Foakes/Balbirnie ''stumping''. I am sure you found that disgraceful too!

Balbirnie was overbalanced from the process of playing a shot. They're totally incomparable.