- All the latest updates from the third ODI at Old Trafford
- Jason Gillespie: arguably it was Morgan who contravened game’s spirit
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Vithushan will be here shortly. In the meantime, here’s what Jason Gillespie had to say about Saturday’s much-discussed Ben Stokes run-out incident:
We are going to need something more specific than the mystical Spirit of Cricket if incidents like the dismissal of Ben Stokes on Saturday are not going to erupt into a war of words in future.
First, the wicket. Stokes, for me, was out by the letter of the law. It’s a case of interpretation, of course, and in this instance the two on-field umpires said not out but the third umpire, Joel Wilson, overruled them. Like me, he believed Stokes’s arm had no right to be where it was and therefore he was obstructing the field.
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