Ok there is going to be a load of hyperbole and nonsense written about Stuart Broad tomorrow but this commentator says stop and think.
The batsman has the absolute right to wait to be given out. Over the years I have seen and played with hundreds of Australians who would never have walked. And in the modern game why should they? After all the German keeper didn't run up to Frank Lampard and say oh by the way old boy I've told the ref that that was a goal. And why should he?
This is professional sport and the clue is in the name. It's about money as well as sportsmanship. I wrote about Dhoni's wonderful gesture a while back on this blog and I stand by those comments. Stuart Broad was wrong in spirit as much as he was right in law. Each of us make our own decisions in sport but ultimately these things will balance out. After all there weren't loads of Aussies queuing up to reprieve Trott last evening!
If the fate of The Ashes rest on this one incident then sport will have lost but I seriously doubt that they will. Ultimately sport will win out in the end after all if this kind of thing happens regularly well....
It's just not cricket my boy
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