International Cricket Council match referee Chris Broad has become embroiled in a Headingley Ashes Test controversy after mocking Australian opener David Warner in a now-deleted social media post.
Broad took to social media on Friday after Warner was dismissed by his son Stuart for the 17th time in Test cricket.
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Broad posted Warner’s faced transposed onto an image of cartoon character Bart Simpson writing blackboard lines declaring: “Stuart Broad has got me out again”.
The ICC refused to comment on Saturday but it is understood that the post did not go down well in the Dubai-based organisation.
There is a view that Broad’s post does not meet the conduct required from an official.
The 65-year-old had deleted the post by Saturday morning, but the issue is expected to be dealt with internally by cricket’s bosses.
Broad, himself a former England Test opening batsman, is not officiating on the Ashes series.
He has presided over four Australian Tests in the past year and would be likely be a match referee at this year’s ODI World Cup in India.
Broad has found himself in the rare position of officiating over a Test involving his son during the COVID-19 era.
He fined him 15 per cent of his match fee in one game for inappropriate language.
Warner’s two dismissals to Broad at Headingley left him with the equal-third worst record of any batsman against a single bowler.
Only Michael Atherton’s 19 times out to Glenn McGrath and Arthur Morris’ 18 dismissals by Alec Bedser make for worse reading in Test history.
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