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The T20I sequence between India and England may be over, with the hosts securing a 4-1 triumph, however the concussion substitute controversy from the 4th T20I is not dying down. A variety of former England gamers and some Indians continued to debate the incident even because the fifth and ultimate T20I between the 2 sides got here below the highlight on Sunday. England skipper Jos Buttler even took a swipe on the incident from the final match by calling his 4 substitutes for the fifth T20I as ‘Impression Subs’. Now, ICC match referee Chris Broad has made some explosive remarks on the controversy.
In a heads-turning publish on X (previously Twitter), Broad claimed that ICC was returning to the ‘dangerous outdated’ days of ‘bias and corruption’ by permitting non-neutral match officers to take cost.
“Independent match officials were brought in to stop situations like this! Why are the ICC returning to the ‘bad old days’ of bias and corruption?,” Chris Broad wrote on X.
Reacting to a remark from former England captain Kevin Pietersen, who mentioned that Harshit Rana wasn’t a like-for-like substitute for Shivam Dube, Broad mentioned he completely agrees.
“Absolutely agree,” he mentioned in response to Pietersen’s remark. “How can an Indian Match Referee get away with allowing this Indian replacement? Match officials should be independent to omit bias! (sic).”
Completely agree. How can an Indian Match Referee get away with permitting this Indian substitute? Match officers ought to be impartial to omit bias!
— Chris Broad (@ChrisBroad3) February 1, 2025
It additionally must be famous that Broad himself was officiating an England vs Pakistan match final 12 months in Could on the Oval. Requested to touch upon the posts, he advised Cricbuzz, “I have nothing more to say.”
Broad is among the most revered ICC officers within the sport. He has officiated 622 video games on the worldwide circuit up to now. The tally makes him stand third within the listing of officers with essentially the most matches, behind Ranjan Madugalle (798) and Jeff Crowe (656).
Even Indian cricket nice Sunil Gavaskar had come down all weapons blazing on the Gautam Gambhir-led crew administration, saying even permitting a concussion substitute wasn’t appropriate.
“In the Pune game, Dube batted right till the end after having got hit on the helmet earlier, so clearly, he was not concussed. So, allowing a concussion substitute itself was not correct. Yes, there could have been a substitute in case he had strained a muscle while batting, but that would have been only for fielding and he could not have bowled,” Gavaskar wrote in a Telegraph column.
“Even by the most generous stretching of the like for like term, there was nothing such between Dube and Rana. With tongue firmly in cheek, one can say that they are the same height and have the same standard in fielding. Otherwise, there’s nothing like for like as far as they are concerned. England has every reason to feel done in. This Indian team is a superb team and doesn’t need its wins to get tarnished by such acts.”
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