Speaking to the Willow Talk podcast, however, Head revealed he had nearly been on the receiving end of such a dismissal at Baristow's hands during the first Test at Edgbaston.

"I sort of reminded Jonny last week I walked out of my crease at Edgbaston, at the end of the over," Head said of the conversation he had with Bairstow after the Lord's flashpoint. "And the ball got whipped in, and I quickly whipped my bat back and questioned Jonny: would you take the stumps? And he said, 'Bloody oath I would,' and ran off.

"So I sort of reminded him that remember last week when you said you'd do exactly the same thing? Whether he remembered saying that or not, but two days before he also tried to throw Marnus' stumps down.

"So in the moment, in the heat of the battle, things come out and things have played out. I know they have questioned it differently if they were in the same situation, but with all the heat out there, doing it a couple of hours later and saying that is a little bit different than in the moment. We'll never know that, we move on, and at the end of the day to the letter of the law it was out. That's their opinion and we've got ours."