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Broad rejects Gavaskar's claim of getting preferential treatment | England all-rounder Stuart Broad has denied former India captain Sunil Gavaskar's claim that he gets preferential treatment because his father, Chris, is an International Cricket Council match referee. "I get treated like
everyone else," THe Guardian quoted Broad, as saying as England prepared for the
third Test against South Africa, which begins at Newlands on Sunday. Writing in
an Indian newspaper, Gavaskar said: "Stuart's father Chris is one of [the] ICC's
match referees and so the umpires are reluctant to make a complaint against the
youngster. Remember the umpires and match referees are used to hanging out together
in the evenings since they are in a foreign country and so forge a good relationship
and obviously the umpires are not looking to spoil that by citing the young Broad
for a violation of the code of conduct." The former England captains Michael Vaughan
and Nasser Hussain have been critical of Broad's behaviour in South Africa. In
the first Test, at Centurion last month, Broad confronted the umpires when he
was given out after a delayed decision by the South Africa players to call for
the new review system. Broad said: "I think a lot was made of the incident at
Centurion. We were told that just a few seconds would be allowed for referrals
and I thought 45 or 35 was quite a long time. But it was a very relaxed conversation
with me just asking whether they were sure they didn't get a signal [from the
dressing room]. "There were no raised voices or swearwords or anything like that
but I probably should have waited for the tea interval to have that little chat
rather than out on the field where everyone could see it." Broad admitted that
he expects to be in trouble in the future. "I am sure that when the time comes
- as I'm sure it will unless I get unbelievably better - that I get in a little
bit of trouble. But I am sure I will get treated the same as everybody else in
the rest of the world. "They [the match referees] are all grown men. I think if
I have done something wrong they will let me know about it. My youthful exuberance
sometimes gets the better of me, but hopefully not to the extent of hitting my
stumps down or anything like that." That was a reference to the Bicentennial Test
in Sydney in 1988, in which his father used his bat to knock over the wicket. |
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