There's something not quite right here for me. Everyone has been yelling "pitch it up" at Broad for ages. He claims not to read the press but Chris Broad says that he does (thanks dad!) and there's no way David Saker hasn't been telling him to bowl fuller. Add that to then fact we all went through this two years ago when he bowled Australia out at the Oval.
The only thing wrong before was the execution and that comes down to Broad himself.
Well then there was nothing wrong with what you've quoted as I said
"without, it seems, anyone telling him to pitch up or ship out I don't know." with the point being he should have been doing as told or told to sling his hook - the latter didn't happen. So something was wrong within the camp, not with what I was saying, or trying to say.
And wasn't a common belief, I saw it a few times on here, that he was being told to be an "enforcer" ? The whole situation was a farce, whatever reason he was bowling too short should have been addressed by the selectors, captain, coach or his whole team, either telling him to stop doing it, or by not picking him. It didn't happen, whether he reads the papers or listens to the media.
And I will question the amount to which the media campaigned about Broad, there's a world of difference between talk of him not cutting it and calls for him to be axed which was pretty much the consensus of opinion before the series started. I think a number before that subscribed (to varying degrees) to the whole "enforcer" concept
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Michael Vaughan and Matthew Hoggard are in a bit of trouble for some banter. Ravi Shastri is a pillock though - you wouldn't get this kind of whining from an Australian.
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