Jonny Bairstow's alleged head-butt 'a bit weird', says Cameron Bancroft

• Bairstow says bar meeting with Australian ‘blown out of proportion’
  
• England will not discipline wicketkeeper over alleged incident in Perth
  

Jonny Bairstow’s actions have been described as “weird” by Australia opener Cameron Bancroft but the England wicketkeeper was exonerated of any malice following the clash of heads between the two players in a bar four weeks ago that dominated the final day of Australia’s crushing 10-wicket victory in the first Test.

Bairstow bumped heads with Bancroft as a curious form of greeting when the two players met in a bar in Perth at the start of the Ashes tour, with Fox Sports News reporting the “head-butt” after the fourth day of the series opener at the Gabba.

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