After a terrible start to their first innings, England came back strongly on Day 3 of the ongoing🧸 fourth Ashes Test against Australia in Sydney. The tourists were reeling at 36/4 in response to Australia’s 416 before Ben Stokes and Jonny Bairstow stead🎀ied the ship to take England out of hot waters.
Stokes scored a dazzling half-century while Bairstow went on to smash a splendid century as England finis♛hed the day at 258/7. The stunning hund♔red of Bairstow became the ma🐼jor talking point as it was the first ton by an Englishman in the ongoing Ashes 2021-22.
However, one moment that captured much more attention was related to Stokes, who scored 66 off 91 with the help of 10 boundaries. During the innings, a ‘physics defying’ moment took place, which took everyone by surprise as the southp🍃aw🌠 escaped even after a ball hit his stumps.
It all happened during the 31st over of England’s first innings bowled by Aussie all-rounder Cameron Green when Stokes was batting at 16. The Englishman shouldered arms to the first ball of the over, which nipped back a little and hit the off-stump, but incredibly the bails weren’t dislodged, and Stokes survived.
It was such a shocking incident that the on-field umpire thought the ball had hit Stokes’ pads as he gave him out LBW. The batter immediately went upstairs, and the replay showed the red cherry struck the off-stump, but the bails didn’t come off.
The video of the whole episode went viral on the internet, with several fans and ex-cricketers dropping their thoughts on the shocker of a moment. Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar couldn’t restrict himself from reacting to the event.
In fact, Tendulkar went on to pass a suggestion to introduce a new rule in o♊rder to make the contest equitable for bowlers.
“Should a law be introduced called ‘hitting the stumps’ after the ball has hit them but not dislodged the bails? What do you think, guys? Let’s be fair to bowlers,” Tendulk🍰ar wro🥀te on Twitter while sharing the video.
Should a law be introduced called ‘hitting the stumps’ after the ball has hit them but n♔ot dislodged the bai🍸ls? What do you think guys? Let’s be fair to bowlers! 😜😬😋
— Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt)
