Australia vs Pakistan 2016/17: Stuart Broad ‘Likes’ Steven Smith’s Decision Not To Walk

Dec 16, 2016 at 3:29 PM

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Australia vs Pakistan 2016/17: Stuart Broad ‘Likes’ Steven Smith’s Decision Not To Walk

Are you a ‘walker’ in cricket like Gillie (Adam Gilchrist)? Or you just want to wait and watch to see how the on-field umpire reacts before bowler appeals in his/her traditional style for a wicket, which is always a special feeling for a bowler like batters who score runs at will.

This seems pretty rough and tough to answer when it comes to international cricket particularly in Tests, but when a batsman is on 97, the plan would be simple: to wait… wait… wait and wait which apparently against the spirit of the gentleman’s game.

This time, Australian skipper Steven Smith, who did the same, was the culprit though not for the England fast bowler Stuart Broad, who liked his decision for not walking-off from the field.

The 30-year-old Broad’s Twitter handle showed some liking for the tweets about Smith’s lucky escape, after opposition failed to appeal.

After being dropped by wicket-keeper Sarfraz Ahmed on 53, Smith edged a ball off Mohammad Amir straight into the gloves of Sarfraz in the 81st over of the first day-night Brisbane Test, but Pakistan didn’t appeal.

Smith looked behind his wickets, dropped his shoulders and acted like if he has felt nothing on his bat while praying that Pakistan should not review the decision, before hotspot picked it in the replay. And there was no doubt Smith felt the faint edge.

“It was pretty loud, but yeah, I did nick it, and no one went up so I wasn’t going to walk. I told ‘Gunner’ Gould at the end of the over ‘I’m pretty sure I hit that one last over’,” said Smith.

In 2013-14, in a similar kind of incident, Broad in a case of blatant cheating himself had once decided not to walk against Australia at Trent Bridge when he nicked a delivery of Ashton Agar intothe hands off Michael Clarke, who was stationed at first slip. Unfortunately for Australia, they ran out of reviews before Aleem Dar gave Broad not out.

Pronouncing it a sheer luck of Smith, as a batsman, Pakistan batsman Azhar Ali said his team didn’t notice anything.

“No one really noticed anything, not even a sniff. None of our guys went up slightly, even. It was just one of those situations where no one realised what had happened,” Azhar Ali said.

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