Stuart Broad

Stuart Broad

CBE
Broad in 2014
Personal information
Full name
Stuart Christopher John Broad
Born (1986-06-24) 24 June 1986 (age 38)
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England
NicknameBroady,[1] Malfoy[2]
Height6 ft 6 in (198 cm)
BattingLeft-handed
BowlingRight-arm Fast-medium
RoleBowler
RelationsChris Broad (father), Mollie King (fiancée)
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 638)9 December 2007 v Sri Lanka
Last Test27 July 2023 v Australia
ODI debut (cap 197)30 August 2006 v Pakistan
Last ODI14 February 2016 v South Africa
ODI shirt no.8 (previously 39)
T20I debut (cap 18)28 August 2006 v Pakistan
Last T20I31 March 2014 v Netherlands
T20I shirt no.8 (previously 39)
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2005–2007Leicestershire
2008–2023Nottinghamshire
2011-2012Kings XI Punjab
2016/17Hobart Hurricanes
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I FC
Matches 167 121 56 265
Runs scored 3,662 529 118 5,840
Batting average 18.03 12.30 7.37 19.08
100s/50s 1/13 0/0 0/0 1/25
Top score 169 45* 18* 169
Balls bowled 33,698 6,109 1,173 50,126
Wickets 604 178 65 952
Bowling average 27.68 30.13 22.93 26.71
5 wickets in innings 20 1 0 32
10 wickets in match 3 0 0 4
Best bowling 8/15 5/23 4/24 8/15
Catches/stumpings 55/– 27/– 21/– 93/–
Medal record
Men's Cricket
Representing  England
T20 World Cup
Winner 2010 West Indies
Champions Trophy
Runner-up 2013 England & Wales
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 31 July 2023

Stuart Christopher John Broad CBE (born 24 June 1986) is an English former cricketer who played Test cricket for the England cricket team and was One Day and Twenty20 International captain. Broad was a member of the England team that won the 2010 ICC World Twenty20. His longevity, and highly successful partnership with fellow fast bowler James Anderson cemented him as one of England's greatest ever Test bowlers.[3]

A right-arm seam bowler and left-handed batsman, Broad began his professional career at Leicestershire; in 2008 he transferred to Nottinghamshire, the county of his birth and the team for which his father played. In August 2006 he was voted the Cricket Writers' Club Young Cricketer of the Year. In the fourth Test of the 2015 Ashes series Broad took career-best figures of 8/15 in the Australian first innings as they were dismissed for just 60. This performance was named as Wisden's Men's Test spell of the decade.[4]

Broad was awarded the Man of the Match in the fifth Test of the 2009 Ashes series at the Oval, after figures of 5/37 in the afternoon session of the second day. On 30 July 2011, at the Nottingham Test match against India, he achieved a Test match hat-trick in the process gaining his then best Test figures of 6/46.[5] As a batsman, he holds the second-highest Test score ever made by a number 9, having scored 169 against Pakistan in August 2010. At the start of the summer in 2012 Broad, returning from injury, produced figures of 7/72 in a match haul of 11 wickets against the West Indies. He is England's second-highest wicket taker in Test cricket. In December 2021, in the second match of the 2021–22 Ashes series, Broad played in his 150th Test match.[6]

During the 2023 Ashes series against Australia, Broad joined the small list of bowlers to take 600 wickets in Test cricket.[7] Broad is only the second fast bowler and second bowler for England to reach the milestone after James Anderson, who was bowling alongside him that day.[8] He is England's second most-capped Test cricketer after Anderson.[9] On 29 July 2023, Broad announced his retirement from all forms of cricket.[10] In his farewell match at The Oval on the concluding day of the Ashes, Broad hit a six from the last ball he faced, then took a wicket with the final ball he bowled to win the Test for the home side.[11][12][13]

  1. ^ "Stuart Broad". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 26 August 2010.
  2. ^ Nathanson, Hannah (20 July 2012). "10 minutes with Stuart Broad". Evening Standard. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
  3. ^ Broad, Stuart. "Stuart Broad Greatest".
  4. ^ Harman, Jo (29 July 2023) [15 December 2019]. "Men's Test Spells Of The Decade, No.1: Stuart Broad's 8-15". Wisden. Archived from the original on 15 December 2019. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  5. ^ "Test match hat-trick takers". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
  6. ^ "Ashes: Stuart Broad becomes 10th cricketer to reach 150 Tests". The Indian Express. Mumbai. 16 December 2021. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  7. ^ "Stuart Broad completes 600 Test wickets". ICC. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
  8. ^ Twigg, Sonia (19 July 2023). "Stuart Broad reaches stunning career milestone as Chris Woakes strikes vital Ashes blows". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 19 July 2023. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  9. ^ "Records for England in Test matches – Most matches". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  10. ^ Burnton, Simon (29 July 2023). "'Wonderful ride': England's Stuart Broad to retire from cricket after Ashes series". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 29 July 2023. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  11. ^ Martin, Ali (31 July 2023). "Broad seals England win in fifth Test against Australia to draw Ashes series". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 31 July 2023. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  12. ^ Agarwal, Naman (30 July 2023). "Watch: Stuart Broad Pulls Mitchell Starc For Six Off The Last Ball He Faced In Test Cricket | Ashes 2023". Wisden. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  13. ^ "England win thrilling final Ashes Test as Stuart Broad takes winning wicket to draw series with Australia". Sky News. Retrieved 31 July 2023.