Jonny Bairstow, the son of the former England wicketkeeper David Bairstow, followed his dad's footsteps and played as a wicketkeeper-batsman for the national team. He remains to be England's middle order. Bairstow remains to be England's strength in middle-order in Tests, while he opens innings in the shorter formats. Bairstow's journey to the England national team wasn't a cakewalk as he had to vie for a spot with Jos Buttler, who proved his ability with the gloves and willow as well. However, prolific run-making for Yorkshire made England's selectors picked up Bairstow, who never actually let them down. He played his first ODI against India at Cardiff on September 16, 2011, following which he made his T20I debut on September 23 against West Indies at The Oval. The Yorkshire-born right-handed batsman made his Test debut in May 2012, facing West Indies at Lord's.
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PBKS vs MI IPL 2024 Playing XIs: Stand-in skipper Sam Curran won the crucial toss and Punjab Kings elected to bowl first against Hardik Pandya's Mumbai Indians in Mullanpur. The star South African batter Rilee Rossouw replaced struggling Jonny Bairstow for the hosts.
After a flop show in the recent India vs England Test series, Jonny Bairstow is set to be available for the entire Indian Premier League season 2024. Bairstow missed the IPL 2023 due to injury and has struggled for form across formats in recent months.
Tempers flared as Jonny Bairstow and Shubman Gill exchanged a few words during the change of overs before Sarfaraz Khan joined in. The war of words continued even after Bairstow had gotten out as he and Gill said something to each other when he was leaving the field in the fifth Test in Dharamsala.
Like he did in 2017 against Australia, Kuldeep Yadav has spun a web around England batters in Dharamsala, as he ran through their top order single-handedly on day one of the Test match. In the process, he also achieved a a personal milestone levelling legendary Erapalli Prasanna.
R Ashwin and Jonny Bairstow became only the fourth pair of cricketers to play their 100th Test together in the series finale in Dharamsala on Thursday, March 7. England won the toss and elected to bat in the fifth and final Test match against India at the picturesque venue.
Ravichandran Ashwin and Jonny Bairstow will be playing their 100th Test match together and will mark a pretty rare record in Test cricket's 147-year-old history of the format. They are set to feature in the India vs England 5th Test in Dharamsala.
Axar Patel was picked over Kuldeep Yadav to strengthen India's potent spin-bowling attack. The Anand-born was fairly impressive with both the ball and the bat in hand when the last time the Three Lions toured India.
"India can produce different pitches: it doesn't have to turn. We've seen how potent their seam attack has been recently. I'm sure the pitches will turn: it's whether or not they'll turn from day one, which potentially negates a bit of their strength in their seam," Bairstow said.
"We (England) lost to Sri Lanka in 2019. We lost to Pakistan in 2019. We still went through it. There were similar things that I'm sure you guys [the press] wrote in 2019 at the home World Cup," Jonny Bairstow said while speaking to Cricinfo.
England registered a humongous victory that has done their net run rate (NRR) a world of good. The Jos Buttler-led side had got off to a poor start after getting comprehensively beaten by New Zealand in their World Cup opener. Dawid Malan was awarded the Player of the Match for his century.
Trent Boult made his comeback in this match and is featuring in the ODI format after almost an year having last played on September 11 in 2022. However, he got his first wicket of Bairstow courtesy of a stunning catch from Mitchell Santner.
Jonny Bairstow smashed a quickfire 99* in the first innings at Old Trafford as his quickfire knock helped England take a lead of 275 runs in the fourth Ashes Test.
Stumping dismissal in the Lord's Test is certainly playing on Jonny Bairstow's mind. On the flip side, he was also taunting Australia with his actions on Day 1 of Headingley Test.
Former Australia and England cricketers continue to take potshots at each other over Jonny Bairstow's stumping dismissal at Lord's.
Former New Zealand all-rounder Grant Elliott shared a video where Jonny Bairstow was seen leaving his crease on multiple occasions during the Lord's Ashes Test before the eventual stumping.
'Spirit of Cricket' debate has been lit a fire in England after Jonny Bairstow's controversial dismissal on Day 5 of the Lord's Test and UK's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has jumped on the bandwagon.
Australia and England are at loggerheads over Bairstow's controversial stumping by Alex Carey on the fifth and final day of Lord's Test.
The incident involving Jonny Bairstow's dismissal has hogged the limelight. But what does the laws say? Was the dismissal fair? We have explained here everything...
Jonny Bairstow's dismissal in the second innings of Lord's Test has been the most talked point in the cricketing circles. Things are heated at the moment among both Australia and England teams with experts and former cricketers arguing over 'spirit of the game'.
Jonny Bairstow's controversial run-out has created a huge uproar in English and Australian media as the Lord's Ashes Test ended up with sheen taken off it as the visitors took a 2-0 lead.
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