Few bowlers in the world can be as adamant and stubborn as Stuart Broad when requesting their captain to take a DRS call.
The umpiring standards in the ongoing Ashes 2023 series haven’t been great and on the morning of Day 2 at Lord’s England got an on-field lbw decision of not out from umpire Ahsan Raza overturned of Alex Carey off Stuart Broad’s bowling that set the tone for the rest of the bowling attack to help England make a comeback in the Lord’s Test.
The England bowlers came out with more intent and purpose today, on Day 2, than they did on Day 1 when they allowed the Aussies to reach 339/5 in 83 overs. Even as Steve Smith completed his 32nd Test hundred, England bowlers were sharp and nipped out the remaining 5 wickets for only 77 runs.
Ollie Robinson and Josh Tongue finished with three-wicket hauls but it was the ever-energetic Stuart Broad who started Australia’s slide with the dismissal of Alex Carey, and he needed some great deal of help from the DRS.
English Seamer came in from around the wicket to nip one back in sharply to the left-hander Carey, with the ball beating his inside edge, taking some pad and reaching wicket-keeper Jonny Bairstow. England appealed loudly, but the umpire didn’t give it out.
It was clear on first view that the ball had brushed the pad and missed the inside edge, and on the lbw front, it looked a bit high for giving the batter out. However, Stuart Broad was certain it was crashing into the stumps. As Ben Stokes pondered over a DRS call, Broad could be heard saying “it’s out, it’s out” multiple times. Stokes signalled the DRS sign, and Stuart Broad was vindicated as ball-tracking showed the ball to be hitting the top of the leg-stump. It wasn’t an ‘Umpire Call’ but it was ‘Hitting’ the leg-stump and Carey was given out.
Here, watch this brilliant DRS call from Stuart Broad to overturn the umpire’s decision:
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