That’s barely controversial, absolutely brain dead from Bairstow there. I hate the English media and ECB whining about the spirit of the game for something like this

I mean it would obviously be a bit hypocritical as a Kiwi to say the Aussies were wrong given we’ve got people out in similar fashions. But clearly Bairstow goofed here; the ball wasn’t dead and he just wandered out. Its a dumb dismissal sure, and but its equally dumb that he did it, and that the Aussies appealed it. Either way, appealing to the spirit of sportsmanship or cricket or whatever has long gone.