Stuart Broad

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Stuart Broad
England
Personal information
Full name	Stuart Christopher John Broad
Nickname	Broady
Born	24 June 1986 (1986-06-24) (age 21)
	Nottingham, England
Height	6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Role	Bowler
Batting style	Left-handed
Bowling style	Right-arm fast medium
International information
Test debut (cap 636)	9 December 2007: v Sri Lanka
Last Test	08 June 2008: v New Zealand
ODI debut (cap 197)	30 August 2006: v Pakistan
Last ODI	23 February 2008: v New Zealand
ODI shirt no.	8
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2008–	Nottinghamshire
2005–2007	Leicestershire (squad no. 16)
Career statistics
	Test	ODIs	FC	LA
Matches	6	26	42	42
Runs scored	211	208	931	243
Batting average	30.14	29.71	23.87	22.09
100s/50s	0/1	0/0	0/6	0/0
Top score	64	45*	91*	45*
Balls bowled	1272	1314	7035	2072
Wickets	16	38	138	61
Bowling average	40.62	29.34	29.99	29.09
5 wickets in innings	0	0	6	0
10 wickets in match	0	n/a	0	n/a
Best bowling	3/54	4/51	5/67	4/51
Catches/stumpings	4/–	7/–	13/–	9/–
As of 8 June 2008 Source: cricketarchive.com

Stuart Christopher John Broad (born 24 June 1986 in Nottingham, England) is an English test and one-day 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. It has recently been revealed that Broad, already 6 foot 5, could be on course to reach 6 foot 7.^{[citation needed]} 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. 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 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 17 in the first test. He was named in the ECB National Academy squad for winter 2005-06. He 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 has also been included in the ECB's 25 man development squad for the 2006 season. David Graveney the chairman of selectors said that "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 he was named Young Cricketer of the Year by the Cricket Writers' Club.^[4] On 28 August 2006, 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 2006, he made his One-day International 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 3rd ODI on 5 September 2006, Broad once again found himself on a hat-trick with the wickets of Abdul Razzaq and Kamran Akmal. He bowled 10 overs and ended with figures of 3-57 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 part way 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 3/20 in the first match to lead England to a 1:0 lead in the ODI series.^[8] On 30 August 2007, Broad took career best bowling figures of 4/51 as England bowled out India for 212 in the 4th match of the summer's ODI series. Broad also hit an unbeaten 45 runs to take his first ODI man-of-the-match award. The match-winning unbeaten partnership of 99 runs that Broad shared with Ravi Bopara is a record 8th wicket stand for England in ODIs.^[9]

On 19 September 2007, Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh hit six sixes from one Broad over in a Twenty20 International match at Durban, South Africa.^[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 Dutch Daan van Bunge.)

Broad enjoyed a hugely successful ODI series in Sri Lanka in October 2007, taking 11 wickets in the series at an average of 19.27, as England won the series 3-2 to record their first ever ODI series win in Sri Lanka.^[11] Ryan Sidebottom was the only England bowler to take more wickets than Broad (12). He went on to have an equally successful ODI series against New Zealand. Although England fell to a 3:1 defeat, Broad was the leading wicket taker and held highest batting average, 52.0, out of the entire England team.^[12]

On the June 6, 2008, Broad scored his maiden test 50 with the bat against New Zealand at Trent Bridge making 64 before being bowled by Chris Martin.

[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)

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

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

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