Stuart Broad

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Stuart Broad

Personal information
Full name	Stuart Christopher John Broad
Born	24 June 1986 (1986-06-24) (age 23) Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England
Nickname	Broady
Height	6 ft 5.5 in (1.97 m)
Batting style	Left-handed
Bowling style	Right-arm fast-medium
Role	Bowler
Relations	BC Broad (father)
International information
National side	England
Test debut (cap 636)	9 December 2007 v Sri Lanka
Last Test	14 May 2009 v West Indies
ODI debut (cap 197)	30 August 2006 v Pakistan
Last ODI	26 May 2009 v West Indies
ODI shirt no.	8
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2008–	Nottinghamshire
2005–2007	Leicestershire
Career statistics
Competition	Test	ODIs	FC	LA
Matches	17	49	56	65
Runs scored	533	301	1,335	336
Batting average	31.35	17.70	26.17	16.00
100s/50s	0/3	0/0	0/9	0/0
Top score	76	45*	91*	45*
Balls bowled	3,262	2,402	9,609	3,160
Wickets	46	76	183	99
Bowling average	37.95	26.75	29.84	27.20
5 wickets in innings	1	1	8	1
10 wickets in match	0	n/a	0	n/a
Best bowling	5/85	5/23	5/67	5/23
Catches/stumpings	4/–	13/–	16/–	15/–
Source: CricketArchive, 4 July 2009

Stuart Christopher John Broad (born 24 June 1986 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England) is an English Test and One Day International cricketer. He plays for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club, and previously represented Leicestershire County Cricket Club. He is the son of former England cricketer and ICC match referee Chris Broad. In August 2006 he was voted the Cricket Writer's Club Young Cricketer of the Year.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Leicestershire career 3 England career 4 Achievements and honours 5 Notes 6 External links

[edit] Early life

Stuart Broad originally started his career as an opening batsman, like his father. It wasn't until he was 17 and had a growth spurt that he started to consider being a genuinely quick bowler. Broad had been associated with Leicestershire since he was 8 years old having represented them at Under 9 level. He was awarded with the Leicestershire Young Cricketers Batsman Award in 1996. Broad was a pupil at Oakham School, where he was in the same year as England Rugby back-row Tom Croft. Broad learned most of his adult cricket at Melton Mowbray club Egerton Park. He played for the club from the ages of 9-19 where in his final 2 seasons he opened the batting with fellow Leicestershire player Matthew Boyce and spearheaded the attack. Broad maintained the Club's tradition of providing International seam bowlers as Egerton Park were the first club of former Warwickshire, Derbyshire and (fleetingly) England seamer Tim Munton.

[edit] Leicestershire career

Broad played his first game for Leicestershire 2nd XI in 2004 just before his 18th birthday and impressed enough to be given a full contract for the following season. Broad continued to impress Director of Cricket James Whitaker and made his first class debut early in the 2005 season against Durham University Centre of Cricketing Excellence. He returned credible figures of 1/40 from 15 overs. His maiden first class wicket was that of Nick Lamb. Broad followed this appearance with his first County Championship appearance against Somerset at the familiar location of Oakham. Broad impressed yet again when, against a batting line up which included Graeme Smith and Sanath Jayasuriya, he finished with figures of two for 61 in a game ruined by the rain. By the end of the season Broad had become a regular fixture in Leicestershire's first-class side, playing their last four Championship fixtures and getting his one-day debut in the very final National League fixture of the season, taking two for 40 against Kent Spitfires.

The 2006 season was a kind one for Broad. He took his first 5 wicket haul against championship favourites Surrey and scored his first championship 50 against Derbyshire. His most eye catching performances have been in the Twenty20 Cup, where his economy of 4.50 was the second-best of the season of bowlers with more than 15 overs bowled.^[1] In the County Championship Broad played twelve of Leicestershire's 13 matches until called up for England, and his 44 wickets at an average of 31.38 meant he led his county both in terms of wickets and bowling average.^[2] On 23 August 2007 it was announced that Broad would be leaving Leicestershire at the end of the season to join Nottinghamshire after choosing not to renew his contract and return to his home county.^[3]

[edit] England career

Broad played for the England Under-19 squad in 2005, facing the Sri Lankan U-19 squad, and took five for seventeen in the first "test" at Shenley. He was named in the ECB National Academy squad for the winter of 2005-06 and was then called up to the England "A" squad touring the West Indies, as a replacement for James Anderson, who had been drafted into the Test side touring India. In April 2006, Broad was again called up to the England A squad, facing the touring Sri Lankan team.

Broad was also included in the ECB's 25-man development squad for the 2006 season. David Graveney, the chairman of selectors, said, "The squad essentially enables the England Head Coach (Duncan Fletcher), working with his support staff and the National Academy staff, to monitor more closely the development of international players and better prepare them for the demands of the international game."

On 23 August 2006, Broad was included in the England one-day squad for the one-day internationals against Pakistan, and a couple of days later was named Young Cricketer of the Year by the Cricket Writers' Club.^[4] On 28 August, Broad made his first England appearance, in the Twenty20 International against Pakistan. Broad bowled four overs for 35 runs, and took two wickets in two balls, Shoaib Malik and Younis Khan, and narrowly missed out on a hat-trick, after a lofted shot from Shahid Afridi fell just short of Kevin Pietersen.^[5] On 30 August, he made his ODI debut, taking a wicket in his first over, as well as being involved in a last-wicket partnership of 29 with Darren Gough. In the third ODI on 5 September 2006, Broad once again found himself on a hat-trick with the wickets of Abdul Razzaq and Kamran Akmal, but again missed out on the third. He bowled ten overs and ended with figures of three for 57 with one maiden.

Broad was left out of the squad for the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy and the 2006-07 Commonwealth Bank Series. However, he was called up for the finals in the latter following injuries to Jon Lewis and Chris Tremlett.^[6] He was also called into England's squad as a replacement partway through the 2007 World Cup. He finished the tournament by scoring the winning runs in England's final match against the West Indies.^[7] Broad also featured in the ODI squad at the end of the West Indies tour of England in summer 2007, taking three for twenty in the first match to take England to a one-nil lead in the ODI series.^[8] On 30 August, he took career-best bowling figures of four for 51 as England bowled out India for 212 in the fourth match of the summer's ODI series. Broad also hit an unbeaten 45 to take his first ODI Man-of-the-Match award. The definitive unbeaten partnership of 99 runs he shared with Ravi Bopara is a record eighth-wicket stand for England in ODIs.^[9]

On 19 September, Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh hit six sixes from one Broad over in a Twenty20 International match in Durban, South Africa, during 2007's ICC World Twenty20.^[10] This was the fourth time the feat had been performed in senior cricket, the first in Twenty20 cricket, and the first time in any form of international cricket against a bowler from a major cricket country. (Garfield Sobers and Ravi Shastri did it in first-class matches; Sobers, as captain of Nottinghamshire, in 1968 off Malcolm Nash of Glamorgan and Shastri in 1984 playing for Bombay against Baroda. Herschelle Gibbs did it in a 2007 World Cup match against Daan van Bunge of the Netherlands, and Yuvraj himself had come close to suffering the fate earlier in 2007 at the hands of Dimitri Mascarenhas. His destruction of Broad, Mascarenhas's England team-mate, was widely seen as a sort of revenge.)

Broad enjoyed a hugely successful ODI series in Sri Lanka in October 2007, taking eleven wickets in the series at an average of 19.27, as England won the series three-two to record its first ever ODI series win in Sri Lanka.^[11] Ryan Sidebottom, with twelve, was the only England bowler to take more wickets than Broad, who went on to have an equally successful ODI series against New Zealand. Although England fell to a three-one defeat, Broad was the leading wicket taker and held the highest batting average, 52, in the England team.^[12] During the tour of New Zealand in 2008, Broad, along with Alastair Cook and James Anderson, posed naked for the Cosmopolitan paper with just a cricket bat for coverup.^[13]

On 6 June 2008, Broad scored his maiden Test fifty against New Zealand at Trent Bridge, making 64 before being bowled by Chris Martin. He quickly followed this with his second, in July 2008, in the test series against South Africa, scoring a new best of 76. In the Second Test at Headingley, Broad contributed seventeen runs in the first innings, as England was bowled out on the first day for 203. In the second innings, with the match already lost, Broad top-scored with 67 in an innings that included some impressive drives through midwicket and cover, giving further evidence of his abilities with the willow. After this, his Test batting average rose above forty. His performances with the bat have led pundits to suggest that he may become a genuine all rounder, with Geoffrey Boycott comparing him to Garfield Sobers: "He's a wonderful player. There's a little bit of Sobers in him".^[14]

Broad was surprisingly dropped for the following Test at Edgbaston, making way for the returning Paul Collingwood. England captain Michael Vaughan said he was left out because of his bowling, but the decision has been criticised: Collingwood was no better a bowler than Broad, and Broad's form with the willow was decidedly superior. Broad duly took seven wickets for Nottinghamshire against Durham while the Test was being played. On 26 August 2008, he recorded the first five-wicket haul in his international career with best figures of five for 23 against South Africa at his home ground in the second ODI of the series.

On May 26, 2009, Broad was named Man of the Series (one-day) against the West Indies in England. He took a total of six wickets, and England won the series two-nil after the first ODI was rained out. In the adjacent Test series, in which the home side fairly routed its opponents, Broad's wickets came at an average of just eighteen — "further evidence," reckoned Nick Hoult, "of the top class international cricketer that lurks within. His bowling, particularly the variety he has added to his game, makes him a potential Ashes star [...]."^[15]

On June 5, 2009, Netherlands defeated England by four wickets in the first match of the ICC World Twenty20.^[16] Netherlands needed seven to win from the final over with Broad bowling. He spurned two run-out opportunities from the first two balls, and dropped a catch off the third. The Dutch needed two runs from the final ball to win, and got them after Broad picked up the ball in his follow through and, attempting to win the match, overthrew, missing his third run-out opportunity of the over and allowing the batsmen to come back for the match-clinching second run.^[17]

In July 2009, Broad was named in the squad to face Australia at Cardiff for the first Ashes Test, and the first of his career.

[edit] Achievements and honours

• Cricket Writer's Club Young Cricketer of the Year 2006
• Record 8th wicket partnership for England in One-Day Internationals (with Ravi Bopara v India at Old Trafford, 2007)
• Record 7th wicket partnership against South Africa in Test Matches (with Ian Bell at Lord's, 11 July 2008)
• PCA: England's Most Valuable Player for 2008/09 [1]

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• Player Profile: Stuart Broad from Cricinfo
• Player Profile: Stuart Broad from CricketArchive
• Cricket Online Profile

v • d • e England squad – 2007 Cricket World Cup 5 Collingwood · 7 Bell · 9 Anderson · 11 Flintoff · 14 Strauss · 17 Plunkett · 18 Lewis · 19 Mahmood · 24 Pietersen · 34 Dalrymple · 36 Joyce · 39 Broad · 42 Bopara · 46 Panesar · 47 Nixon · 99 Vaughan · Coach: Fletcher Stuart Broad was called up to replace Jon Lewis, who had to return home due to family problems