604 Test wickets, Ashes theatre, and a career that ended exactly the way he wanted it to
CricketStuart Broad wrote his own ending, and it still reads like fiction.
For sixteen years he was England's relentless tall fast bowler, the man who ran in with ice eyes and a knack for sudden devastation. He finished with 604 Test wickets, the second most ever by a seam bowler, and produced more match defining spells than seems reasonable for one career. Eight for 15 against Australia at Trent Bridge in 2015 remains the most surgical morning of Ashes cricket anyone has seen in a generation.
He will also be remembered for the 2009 Oval spell that won the Ashes, the eight wicket haul against Sri Lanka, and for being the only man to have taken a hat trick in both Test cricket and one of the more theatrical Ashes overs of the modern game. He played 167 Tests and took more than 20 five wicket hauls.
Then there was the final day of his final Test. Broad hit a six off his last ball as a batter, then bowled Todd Murphy off his final ball as a bowler, to seal a drawn Ashes at The Oval. It was the kind of farewell you script and then quietly admit is impossible.
He now works as a Sky Sports analyst and is one of the most in-demand speakers in English sport, bringing a sharp wit and the authority of a man who lived every Ashes moment from inside the arena.
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