Bairstow left the crease assuming the ball was dead.
The final day's play of the second Ashes Test at Lord's witnessed some drama on Sunday (July 2) after England wicketkeeper-batter Jonny Bairstow was stumped by his counterpart Alex Carey in bizarre circumstances.
Bairstow ducked a short ball from Cameron Green and almost instantly left his crease assuming the ball was dead but it was a brainfade on his part as Carey was smart enough to have collected the ball and aimed for the stumps in one go to catch Bairstow well outside the crease.
The Australians appealed and celebrated passionately as the decision was referred to the third umpire Marais Erasmus who did not take much time in giving the batter out.
Bairstow however wasn't impressed as he had few words with some of the Australian fielders before heading towards the pavilion, with England captain Ben Stokes also exchanging his thoughts with Australian captain Pat Cummins.
The incident expectedly fetched a strong response from the current and former cricketers on social media. Here are some of the tweets: