Sunil Gavaskar alleges nexus over Stuart Broad non-action

[asterix]

Former Indian captain Sunil Gavaskar believes the reason why Stuart Broad gets away with questioning umpires' decisions all the time is because of his father, Chris Broad, the ICC match referee. Gavaskar said the 23-year-old England fast bowler was an "exceptional cricketer in the making", but was surprised why Stuart had not even been reported or called before the match referee, and had got away scot free for offences that would make others lose a substantial portion of their match fees, "Stuart's father Chris is one of ICC's match referees and so the umpires are reluctant to make a complaint against the youngster," wrote Gavaskar in his column for Mid-Day, an Indian daily. "Remember the umpires and match referees are used to hanging out together in the evenings since they are in a foreign country and so forge a good relationship and obviously the umpires are not looking to spoil that by citing the young Broad for a violation of the code of conduct." Gavaskar said the latest instance in South Africa, when Stuart was involved in an ugly on-field exchange with the umpires after being given out lbw following a delayed review from the South Africans, was just one among a long list. "He knows he can get away with it and indeed he has," Gavaskar wrote. "Stuart has been quoted as saying he didn't think he had done anything wrong in questioning the umpires decision to refer the appeal to the third umpire since he thought that it hadn't come in the expected time but a bit later than is normally the case and therein has confirmed again that he thinks he is a special case and not on par with the rest of the cricketing world." Former England captains Michael Vaughan and Nasser Hussain, in their columns in English newspapers, have previously highlighted the petulance that Stuart has shown at umpiring decisons ever since he broke into the England team. "Michael Vaughan and Nasser Hussain in their articles have brought out the petulance of Stuart Broad," Gavaskar wrote. "They have been thinking cricketers and captains during their careers and much admired for the manner in which they conducted themselves on the field...swearing and abusing the opposition when things are not going your way is tough cricket. That in fact is cowardly cricket for the practitioners of this approach would not have the courage to use the same language off the field to their opponents or anyone for that matter and hope to get away with it." http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/441451.html?CMP=OTC-RSS

[cowboysfan]

lol,we can always rely on sunny for one of these.

[Deleted_User_1]

That is funny, he looks like preppy wuss though!

[achilles]

The Great One has spoken :two_thumbs_up: Expect a "rebuttal" for Sunny Sir from the ICC :finger:

[Texy]

at least Sunny has the balls to say what others want to say

[achilles]

Yes. Anyone who has the balls to be honest is usually perceived to be "biased" by the "elite" :finger:

[saneindian]

ICC ab Sunny bhai ka ghanta ukhadegi.. He already showed them :finger: by resigning from the technical committee post. And he is right in saying so, Broad keeps getting away from all his antics on the field due to one or the other reasons.

[kabira]

Chris Broad should not be Match Referee. He has worst track record.

[hitman1980]

Bravo !!! He said the thing which others always wanted to say .. but don't had the balls to say .. It was high time this father son duo were put in their right places ..

[DomainK]

Once again, Sunny is right.

[Rajan]

Sunny is very correct. In the same test where Gambhir was banned for a test, He was pushed by the creep Katich once. but the umpires chose not to report the incident. where as if the indian/pak/sl/wesit indies players had done the same, they would have reported. besides that, the Refereee like Broad himself would have acted even with out any umpire reporting! double standards by ICC referees and umpires is glaring in the Benn-Haddin-Johnson, later Watson-Gayle incident too.Broad is #1 and probably licks his lips anticipating an incident worthy of banning players from Sub continent and windies. Dont know whether any one can recall the Mike procter report/justification for banning Harbhajan after 'sydney gate', he went on record to state that ,' it is clear that of the 2 groups of players representing the 2 teams, one group is not telling the truth". he effectively called SRT a liar then. But Sunny copped from the aussie and SA press for taking on Procter..

[TheWall]

:finger: to Ghoras.

[Ram]

Its Gavaskar, what else did you expect? To even suggest that umpires hesistate from reporting Broad Jr. to Broad Sr. because they dont wanna sour their relations with the latter is not just slap in the elite panel's integrity, but also quite prepostrous and unfounded. The Elite panel (or for that matter, any international umpire) is not appointed/assesed by an match referee, for them to be mindful of what the referee thinks. So why would they be afraid of what Chris Broad thinks? More importantly, when a declared hate-mongerer like Gavaskar says such ridiculous things, it punctures a big hole in the credibility of other similar allegations made by cricketers like Kumble. There's very little doubt that cricketers from Asia/West Indies have been given the rough end of a bargain many a time, when it comes officiating, but to suggest Stuart gets off easily because his dad is a referee is just plain stupid.

[Sooda]

^I havent been following his career closely enough to know previous instances- but, how else can you explain the fact that he seems to 'get away with it repeatedly'?

[achilles]

Its Gavaskar, what else did you expect? To even suggest that umpires hesistate from reporting Broad Jr. to Broad Sr. because they dont wanna sour their relations with the latter is not just slap in the elite panel's integrity, but also quite prepostrous and unfounded. The Elite panel (or for that matter, any international umpire) is not appointed/assesed by an match referee, for them to be mindful of what the referee thinks. So why would they be afraid of what Chris Broad thinks? More importantly, when a declared hate-mongerer like Gavaskar says such ridiculous things, it punctures a big hole in the credibility of other similar allegations made by cricketers like Kumble. There's very little doubt that cricketers from Asia/West Indies have been given the rough end of a bargain many a time, when it comes officiating, but to suggest Stuart gets off easily because his dad is a referee is just plain stupid.

Its amazing to see people outside the subcontinent brand everyone having an opinion from the subcontinent as biased hate-mongers or "monegers" as you call it. Its really retarded to see educated ppl, brainwashed by their media talking about "hate mongering" when they deem articles like these absolutely fine- 1. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23009023-5014229,00.html 2. http://blogs.brisbanetimes.com.au/bluntinstrument/archives/2008/01/pots_and_kettle.html 3. http://www.smh.com.au/news/cricket/a-class-act-opinions-differ/2008/01/04/1198950076545.html Please go through all the links and admire the articles of these "great" men before calling Sunny Sir biased again :two_thumbs_up:

[achilles]

And Stuart Broad has responded- http://www.cricinfo.com/rsaveng09/content/current/story/441887.html

[S.Bond]

somtimes it's evn had to imagine sunil wa a so good batsmman, he i soooo bad a comentator... it's looks like he never know what he is talking about... I can't forget, in champion league when moisess henriques came in to bat, he said "don't look the average, look his strike rate, that's a tremendous sstrike rate, amazing" hahahahaha at that time moise henriquess T20 tike ate wa 110... and that is quite a bad one forr the format... there is a lot of othe comments he maks that make no sense

[TheWall]

somtimes it's evn had to imagine sunil wa a so good batsmman, he i soooo bad a comentator... it's looks like he never know what he is talking about... I can't forget, in champion league when moisess henriques came in to bat, he said "don't look the average, look his strike rate, that's a tremendous sstrike rate, amazing" hahahahaha at that time moise henriquess T20 tike ate wa 110... and that is quite a bad one forr the format... there is a lot of othe comments he maks that make no sense

that's bcoz nonsense ppl cannot understand his comments.

[99.94]

Ahh Gavaskar..

[flamy]

Gavaskar :isalute: