Bullshit. I am no England fan, and am rooting for the Aussies. But not walking is not cheating, whether you feather it or it or knock the face off it. If you walk, then that’s great (whenever you do it, irrespective of whether you do it selectively according to the situation). If you don’t, then that’s fine, the umpire is there for a reason. It is NOT CHEATING.

I hate this stupid thing being framed as a debate. Its plain and simple and there are no two sides to it. There are a lot of more interesting things to talk about. Like the fact that Broad is a twat in general. And so his is dad.

@Daneel, Clarke started to walk, then lingered when the umpire did not give him out. He promptly did leave the crease; and later apologized for hesitating. You will not get an apology from brat-cheat Broad.

Incidentally, the crying shame here is that Collingwood was dropped right before he became England’s most capped player ever, and just before he passed 10000 international runs.

For a man who was perpetually out of form, and looked crap even when he wasn’t, he had one hell of a career. I’d take vintage Colly back like a shot over Bairstow and co. In fact, I’d take Colly today.

Oh, okay.

You mean like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDA_vCl2yGc

True, strong words–but Broad combines mediocrity with insufferability. The Eng cap is frankly sullied by someone like that, w/ no great cricketing ability but questionable ethics. Waiting for the umpire’s decision when you are not sure is okay–but not when you know you hit it, blatantly knocked the ball off the face of the bat.

To be fair, Gooch was either sulking, dropped, or banned for about half of those 20 years.

Tendulkar is in his 24th year of international cricket.

Weird that, ‘cos I’d say Broad exhibits the most Australian’ traits of anyone in this England side. Well, Australian toddler, perhaps.

Do you think Steve Waugh or Allan Border would have walked?

Bit aggressive. We like a colourful alternative where strong emotions come into play.

Try ‘simmer in heck’.

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/stats/index.html?class=11;team=1;template=results;type=batting

See how close Mr Pietersen is to being England’s record run scorer in international cricket.