Travis Head makes a sensational revelation, claims Jonny Bairstow threatened to stump him during Edgbaston Test

England cricketers, head coach and fans voiced their displeasure on the incident and questioned spirit of the game as the Three Lions ended up losing the match and Bairstow's dismissal played a big part in it.

Australian middle-order batter Travis Head has now made a sensational revelation, claiming that Bairstow had threatened to stump him in the similar fashion during the Edgbaston Test.

"I sort of reminded Jonny last week I walked out of my crease at Edgbaston, at the end of the over," Head said on LiSTNR's Willow Talk podcast.

"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," the Australian batter added.