Don’t we all love them briats. Most of them being an offspring of someone rich, or belonging to an elite class. Going out there, strutting their stuff, jumping on balls, exfoliating absurdities. We hate them. We love them.
They are sort of enigmas, committing crimes at will, knowing that they are different. That they are immune from the atrocities of the system. That nothing, and i copy paste and capitalize, NOTHING can impede their run in to glory.
I am talking about the not so curious case of Stuart Christopher Broad. I don’t know how many bar-mates papa Chrissy has among match referees, but sonny sometimes goes a wee bit too far. Take the stepping on the ball incident for example.
Of course, Stewie did not mean to tamper with the ball, his intentions are crystal clear to all the pundits watching on the television. But what we see is what we see. Man stepped on the ball, man should be fined.
Cut to sometime in the past. Sachin Tendulkar was caught on candid camera picking the seam of the ball for want of a better place to pick. NO, superstars cannot be caught picking their nose. News channels die for such rare footage to ruin your Sunday morning television with infinite reruns.
Rahul Dravid was also caught smearing some chewies on the ball. Bad. Very bad.
Both the above culprits were punished. Broad was not. By stating all this I am in no way claiming that the decisions by officials in the past have been fair or unfair. Inconsistent is the word I am looking for here.
After all this, SB again goes out and disrespects the game in Bangladesh, with nothing but a ‘playing to the gallery’ apology to show for it. Even that was not asked for. What a true gentleman, to step up and apologise. NOT!
The very next day, he said that despite the apology, he is not going to tone down his famous aggression. I am , of course, misplacing his quote, but that is the least this blog can do to get at him. Not that I want to.
Ending this with a reference to an oft repeated quote about the “step-on-the-ball” episode seems appropriate to my intellect. A lot of people ask themselves this question whether any punishment would have been doled out if the said act was committed by a Pakistani player. Everyone’s conscience replies in the affirmative.
If Stuart Broad steps on the ball, and doesn’t face the umpire after appealing, he is the cool one, and his intentions are milky white (no racism implied). After all, its us the media which leads the tirade against the innocent elite. But if Shahid Afridi bites the ball, he is jacked, and almost sacked. What sort of justice…..all right, biting the ball is over the top, but you know what i mean. Right?
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Just read it in the news. Is it possible that Broad feels on the safe side? Those must be pretty reliable connections, otherwise he would have bucked up after the ball tampering incident. Good post, blogrolled you. Feel free to head over to me and check out if I’m worthy getting the favour returned
Cheers,
Wes
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thanks for dropping by Wes. I have blogrolled you