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Xtra Time Web Desk: Former England bowler Tim Bresnan has revealed he received death threats along with umpire Rod Tucker for dismissing Sachin Tendulkar in the 90s during the 2011 four-Test series between India and England.

The Indian batting maestro was stuck on 99 hundreds for a long time and during the test match at Oval he was well on course for his 100th test ton. But he was undone by a Bresnan delivery on his personal score of 91. He was adjudged leg before by umpire Rod Tucker , even though the ball seemed to be missing the leg stump. Since the Indian cricket board was not in favour of the DRS (Decision Review System) in the series, there was no scope for a referral.

“He was on 99 international hundreds and there were no referrals in that series because the BCCI didn’t like it,” said Bresnan while speaking on the Yorkshire Cricket: Covers Off podcast. “It was at The Oval in the last Test of the series. This ball, it was probably missing leg anyway, and umpire (Tucker), Aussie lad, shot him out. He was on 80-odd as well (91), definitely going to get it (his century). We win the series and go to number one in the world.” And what followed was absolute pandemonium. For months Bresnan and Tucker received people’s wrath. They would find objectionable letters written to them. The situation became so worse that they had to seek for police intervention.

“We both got death threats, me and this umpire, we got death threats for ages after,” Bresnan went on. “I got them on Twitter and he (Tucker) had people writing to him to his home address and stuff, getting proper death threats going, ‘How dare you give him out? It was missing leg.’ I caught up with him a few months later and he was like, ‘Mate, I’ve had to get a security guard and stuff.’ He had police protection around his gaff in Australia.”