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Sharma
Broad averages 56.11 in Asia.
One quite clearly can; as I intimated before players in the field use their feet to stop the ball quite regularly. But their teeth whilst already in control of the ball? Not so much. In the former instance there is reasonable doubt, in the latter case none.
Same goes for the Asif-Broad issue.All I am saying....Asif's quite clearly was unintentional,at least "there is reasonable doubt"..In Broad's case there is none.It was very deliberate and that pathetic "apology" didn't fool anyone.Just peeved that some posters here are trying to defend Broad.That's all.Nothing against him.
Well, no. The situations aren't quite analogous. I must confess to not even having registered the Asif "incident" at the time & still haven't seen it since, but him throwing the ball to the keeper is in exactly the same ball park as Broad doing likewise. It's just that Asif's aim appears to have been rather better and, having seen the respective players' mastery of control whilst bowling, that's only as one would expect it should be.
What does Sharma bowling pies on his home tracks have to do with Broad?
Having gone back to watch the Asif incident, they actually virtually mirrored each other, accept Colly was watching the bowler and swayed backwards and the ball passed in front of his chest ,while Broad threw the ball at Haider and he wasn't watching to move out of the way.I'm not defending Broad in the slightest ,he got punished rightly so,but I find it interesting you have slammed Broad ,while you seem to be be making every excuse for Asif.
*blatant threadjack because, let's face it, this is the bigger issue*
Sir Alex - the quoted posts, in the context of a general warning in the thread regarding keeping a level of civility in the conversation, and avoiding a flame session, are hard to interpret as anything other than an attempt to incite an argument and derail a thread. While we try to moderate each post on its merits, when someone steps over the line, we dont ignore their track record for similar issues This is an official warning - don't do it again.
Simon Jones did this to Hayden at the start of the 05 series. Nothing was done of course, about the deliberate attempt to maim one of our blokes, or the horrendous sledging and appalling gutter tactics of the England fielders which followed.
No-one's saying he blatantly tried to injure the batter but this minimisation of it isn't helpful either. A joke throw from a bloke who bowls 90mph+ is obviously going to hurt a lot more than the hardest throw of your average weekend warrior, let alone your 7 year old. That he pretty much brushed it off just made it worse.
Only copied what Aussies had done for years previously.
