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Dozy from Bairstow without doubt, but it wasn't a "game-playing" error in the sense of him trying to make a run or overbalancing after a stroke; he left the crease in good faith when both umpires had turned away (which suggests to me that whether or not they'd called over, even the men in white thought "the fielding side and both batters at the wicket have ceased to regard the ball as in play"). I'm no fan of Mankading without warning either, I think there's always a degree of trickery involved in it, but it's at least justifiable on the grounds that the batsman is trying to gain an advantage. Stuff like this, or that incident in the U19 World Cup a few years back when the batsman was given out handling the ball because he picked it up to throw it back to the bowler, is tinpot stuff. If there's no skill involved from bowler or fielders and no competitive action from the batsman, then it's a burgled wicket: embarrassing, devious and unearned.

I know we're still a way off players rolling around on the ground whenever an opponent touches them, but the way cricket is enthusiastically haring after modern football in other respects, I'd rather resist this stuff here and now.