Stuart Broad needs to go home crying when he tours Australia: Darren Lehmann

Darren Lehmann on Stuart Broad: “I hope he cries and he goes home.”

In a remarkable outbreak, Australian coach Darren Lehmann lashed out at England fast bowler Stuart Broad for having stood his ground after edging it to first slip of Ashton Agar’s bowling in the first Test of the ongoing Ashes series.

Speaking to the TripleM station, Lehmann said: “Certainly our players haven’t forgotten, they’re calling him everything under the sun as they go past. I hope the Australian public are the same because that was just blatant cheating. I don’t advocate walking but when you hit it to first slip it’s pretty hard.

“From my point of view I just hope the Australian public give it to him right from the word go for the whole summer and I hope he cries and he goes home. I just hope everyone gets stuck into him because the way he’s carried on and the way he’s commented in public about it is ridiculous.”

The Australian coach also believes that it is unfair to criticise the umpires and stated that when a player edges it to the first slip, he needs to make a move.

Lehmann said: “He knew he hit it to slip. The biggest problem there is the poor umpire cops all the crap that he gets in paper and Stuart Broad makes him look like a fool. From my point of view it’s poor, so I hope the public actually get stuck into him.”

Earlier this week, Broad reignited the controversy by saying, “Yes, I knew I’d hit it. But if you go through the series and look at the Australian players who have nicked it and not walked you could name several — Warner, Rogers, Khawaja, Smith, Clarke, Agar. I mean it’s quite a lot of players for it to be a big issue. Why are people picking on me? Well, it’s the way our media works I suppose.

“It’s a bit silly when people say I edged to slip because it was actually an edge to the keeper that went off his gloves to slip. I went down the other end and Ian Bell said, “What’s happened there? I didn’t hear anything”. And Agar asked me if I’d nicked it because he wasn’t sure. It wasn’t as clear-cut as everybody thought.”