PETER HAYTER

One hesitates to be too critical of Jonny Bairstow for going out to face the last ten minutes or so of the first day of the final Ashes Test in Sydney.
But that doesn’t mean the England wicketkeeper batsman should be allowed to get off Scott-free for his part in a decision that, had circumstances been as different as they dared to hope for at the start of the series, might have resulted in a more significant outcome.
When, with the shadows lengthening across the SCG at around 6.52pm local time, Bairstow walked past the outgoing Joe Root to join Dawid Malan at the creas...