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Paul Thomas: walking the talk

If choosing not to walk is synonymous with any cricketing nation, it’s Australia.

By Paul Thomas In Sport

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28th November, 2013
Much of what goes on in and around sport is hard to fathom, but the current Australian media and spectator campaign against English cricketer Stuart Broad is particularly perplexing. In England earlier this year, Broad was clearly caught at slip but waited for the umpire’s decision, which unaccountably went in his favour. That blunder almost certainly cost Australia the first test and earned Broad a “cheat” label and pantomime-villain status across the Tasman. If his reception at the Gabba is any guide, he can expect to be booed from one coast of Australia to the other this summer. Broad ...

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