Chris Broad Refuses to Walk — Faisalabad 1987

England's tour of Pakistan was already strained by neutral-umpire controversies and a series of close decisions in the first Test.

Broad was 116 in the first innings of the first Test; expectations were high.

On day one of the second Test, England opener Chris Broad was given out caught behind off Iqbal Qasim by umpire Shakeel Khan. Broad believed he had not edged the ball and stood his ground for around a minute, refusing to walk off until his partner Graham Gooch eventually persuaded him. Manager Peter Lush imposed a fine on Broad after the day's play. The incident set the tone for a Test that would also include a series of disputed lbw decisions, a Pakistani belief that England were complaining about home umpires, and culminated two days later in the Mike Gatting and Shakoor Rana finger-pointing confrontation that nearly ended the tour. The Broad refusal-to-walk is often forgotten as the spark that put both sides on edge.

“I knew I hadn't hit it. But I should have walked.”

“He was given out. He should have gone.”

Broad's fine was the first England disciplinary action of the tour but not the last.