Stuart Broad before the fifth Ashes Test, the England bowler has been criticised for ‘cheating’ by Australia’s Darren Lehmann. Photo: Sean Dempsey / PA
Stuart Broad has been accused of “blatant cheating” by Darren Lehmann, who has urged his Australia side to “get stuck into him” in the return Ashes series against England this winter.
Australia’s coach, who took over on the eve of the series when Mickey Arthur was sacked, has largely bitten his tongue as his team have fallen 3-0 down leaving them in danger of becoming statistically Australia’s worst Ashes tourists before Wednesday’s fifth Test at The Oval.
But when asked on the music radio station Triple M about Broad’s staunch defence of his refusal to walk when edging Ashton Agar to slip in the first Test at Trent Bridge, Lehmann snapped and argued that Broad’s behaviour had set the tone for an especially difficult series for the umpires, by making them “look like fools”.
“Certainly our players haven’t forgotten, they’re calling him everything under the sun as they go past,” he said.
“I hope the Australian public are the same because that was just blatant cheating. I don’t advocate walking but when you hit it to first slip it’s pretty hard.
“From my point of view I just hope the Australian public give it to him right from the word go for the whole summer and I hope he cries and he goes home.
“I just hope everyone gets stuck into him because the way he’s carried on and the way he’s commented in public about it is ridiculous. “He hit it to first slip… and the biggest problem there is the poor umpire cops all the crap that he gets in paper and Stuart Broad makes them look like fools. – The Guardian
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