Former England cricketer Stuart Broad's father Chris Broad, has revealed that the INternational Cricket Council once asked him to be lenient toward the Indian team after it fell behind on over-rate during an international match. Broad, who served as ICC match referee from 2003 until February 2024, said he complied with the request but the same issue resurfaced in the very next game despite repeated warnings.

Speaking to The Telegraph, he said, “India were three, four overs down at the end of a game so it constituted a fine. I got a phone call saying, ‘be lenient, find some time because it’s India’. And it’s like, right, OK. So we had to find some time, brought it down below the threshold," .

He added, “The very next game, exactly the same thing happened. He [Sourav Ganguly] didn’t liste

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