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I wasn’t rude and I haven’t done anything wrong.

Says Stuart Broad.

I am sure he wasn’t rude.

But he did show dissent.

Whether he was talking about which review rule South Africa bent, he did go up to the umpire after he was given out to complain about something.

Sulieman Benn would get imprisoned for such dissent. Probably killed.

I’ve often thought that dissent was a pissy little crime, especially when a batsman is given out incorrectly.  What sort of human doesn’t show dissent in such a situation?

But Broad was plumb, dodgy long review or not, and while you could understand why he was pissed, he must have known that once the decision was  reviewed he was going to be given out, so why not have the conversation with the square leg umpire while the review is being reviewed.

Why wait until you are out?

Nasser keeps harping on about how smart he is, some guy in this book calls him the mad scientist of modern seam bowlers, and yet he waits until he is given out and then makes what some could describe as an “ugly” scene out on the field.

Surely it isn’t ok to start discussing the small print of cricket laws when you are supposedly walking off.

To the surprise of everyone, Stuart Broad has not been charged with any offence yet.

Perhaps in that large invisible chameleon document, the spirit of cricket, it is ok to to stay on the ground and talk about the legality of one’s dismissal, if you do it nicely.

Like in all situations in life I go back to one simple mantra, What Would Chris Board Do?

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FREE SULIEMAN BENN

This is the text I have used on the FREE SULIEMAN BENN petition.

Dear ICC,

Your decision to incarcerate Sulieman Benn is rubbish.

Rubbish.

Cricket is a game with passion; yesterday was a perfect example of it.  Had Benn thrown the ball at Haddin’s face and started smacking Johnson around the head, bans would have been justified, but what was he actually banned for.

An ugly accidental incident?

Benn bumped into Johnson by accident, Johnson pushed at Benn because someone had bumped into him, and Benn pushed back because someone was pushing him.

Was it heated, yes.

Was it unnecessary, perhaps.

Was it badly officiated, absolutely.

Was it a confrontation between passionate test cricketers who were in the heat of battle trying to win a game for the country, oh yes.

So why penalize anyone?

No one got hurt, no one instigated contact, no one ruined cricket’s precious little image.

If anything, incidents like this prove that professional cricketers are not robots, that winning matters to them. They aren’t just billboards waiting for a beer company to put another stamp on.

Benn is a fiery guy, which is why I like him, and in the future he will get suspended again for doing something wrong, but this is not the time.

This is a miscarriage of justice, and Benn must be freed.

If the ICC believes that someone must be banned for all this “ugliness”, they can ban Chris “spirit of cricket” Broad or Billy “lover, not a fighter” Bowden, I doubt there will be many tears for them.

FREE SULIEMAN BENN

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Ijaz misplaces his anger

Ijaz Butt has attacked Chris Broad, he must be getting sick of Pakistanis doing that, over his claims of a lapse of security for the officials.

Probably would have been best if Ijaz had just shut the fuck up.

Attacking people who were attacked while you were sitting at a desk is hardly going to look good.

You can say you disagree with them, you can say that perhaps they were caught up in the moment, but saying that “”All his [Broad's] statements are false. He has now made obnoxious comments.” and “”He says there was no policemen there [but] I think there could be no bigger lie than this because six policemen died and ten are injured.” seems a bit much.

Ijaz, we get that you see things differently, but you look like a bit of a cock saying this, especially as Taufel and Davis have backed Broad up, and the 4th umpire has a bullet hole in his back.

When he had finished Broad bashing he moved on to the conspiracy theory that said the Pakistan team was delayed on purpose so they would not be attacked.

He had this to say on the matter, “It is wrong to suggest that. The same security procedure was followed”, and “The Pakistan team used to leave at the same time as the Sri Lankan team and other officials, but somehow or the other on that day they got a bit late.”

If a reporter states it was an inside job or a conspiracy, he says it was wrong to suggest.

If 3 people from inside the attacks, the attackees if you will, say that the security was lax, he says its all comments are false and no bigger lie.

Interesting that Broad gets him angrier than the statements that some of his people were in the know, and or worse.

The PCB are going to lodge a formal complaint against Chris Broad for the comments.

Broad is thinking of making a formal complaint against the PCB for almost getting his ass shot off.

For some Indian cricket fans there could be no harder side to choose between in an argument than between Chris Broad and the Pakistanis.

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