Stuart Broad admitted that he was “feeling a bit nervous” about the potential of a punishment for his ‘celebrappeal’ after striking Roston Chase on the pad on the second day of England’s third Test against West Indies at Emirates Old Trafford.
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Umpire Richard Kettleborough gave chase out only after the England fast bowler had started celebrating.
Combining a celebration with an appeal has become a Broad trademark, but it is technically against the ICC Code of Conduct, in which Article 2.1 forbids “celebrating a dismissal without appealing to the umpire when a decision is required”. In this instance, the match referee, who will have to make the decision over whether to charge Broad with a level one breach, is Chris Broad, Stuart’s father. The punishment for a level one breach can range from just a warning to a 50 per cent match fee fine and two demerit points.
At this point after striking Roston Chase on the pad, umpire Richard Kettleborough still hadn't raised his finger. Just sensational.#ENGvWI pic.twitter.com/Oi8G40As3U
— Wisden (@WisdenCricket) July 25, 2020
“Yeah I’m feeling a bit nervous about that, in all honesty,” Broad said after the game, before expanding on why he had celebrappealed so exuberantly in this instance.
“It was one of those, because I was bowling with the wind going across the ground, into Chase, I was trying to bowl outside off-stump, and I’d been talking to Chris Woakes at mid-off for about nine balls of when to bowl a slightly quicker one that coms back in. It was how Chris got him in the first innings of the last Test actually, so he was like ‘patience, patience, bring him across, bring him across.’ So eventually when I tried it and it hit the pad, it was a different sort of… when a plan comes together it’s a slightly different level of excitement.
In a stiffly competitive field, this might just be Stuart Broad’s greatest ever celebrappeal #ENGvWI pic.twitter.com/nY0qK1FPYM
— Wisden (@WisdenCricket) July 25, 2020
[breakout id=”0″][/breakout] “I sort of celebrated like I bowled him really instead of really having to appeal. So yeah, not one of my favourite moments, but also, the 10 seconds after taking a wicket, you don’t have any sort of control over what’s happening. It wasn’t one of my finer ones. It was a pretty bad one. Or good one, depends which way you look at it.”
