We have all heard how Zinedine Zidane's headbutt of Marco Materazzi shook the world of football during the 2006 football World Cup & its stories are still heard today. The Ashes is one of the biggest cricketing series and it looks the sport seems to have found its own headbutt that will go down in the annals of the game as the one that will be its most-talked one!
First things first and the Bairstow-Bancoft headbutt wasn't quite caught on camera - or at least we don't have any evidence of it so far - but it's been accepted and acknowledged by all parties involved, so it's fair to assume that it did happen.
In fact, the England management is calling it the building of a mountain of a molehill while the Aussies have laughed it off and yet, the whole cricket world is talking about. Why is that?
What actually transpired can be summed up by this version of Australian debutant Cameron Bancroft:
So, yes, let's pause. And have a huge laugh at some of those things said.
Bairstow headbutted Bancroft as a means to say a hi.
Bairstow says hello very differently.
And the kicker...
He didn't knock Bancroft over because "I have the heaviest head in WA".
Guffaws!
The best part about this incident was it seemed forgotten since that night when it actually happened but came back to haunt the English right in the middle of the first Ashes Test when David Warner was heard telling James Anderson, "you don't headbutt our players and get away" or something on those lines anyway.
Bairstow, and by extension the rest of the England team, seemed to have forgotten all about it before Warner brought it up. And then when the incident played out in front of the entire media and the fans, following Bairstow's soft dismissal at the fag end of the England second innings, it can easily be termed as one of the most brutal, non-abusive sledge in the history of Test match cricket.
How will Bairstow and England respond at Adelaide?