Stuart Broad

Infobox cricketer biography
playername = Stuart Broad


country = England
fullname = Stuart Christopher John Broad
nickname = Broady
living = true
dayofbirth = 24
monthofbirth = 6
yearofbirth = 1986
placeofbirth = Nottingham
countryofbirth = England
heightft = 6
heightinch = 5
batting = Left-handed
bowling = Right-arm fast-medium
role = Bowler
family = BC Broad (father)
international = true
testdebutdate = 9 December
testdebutyear = 2007
testdebutagainst = Sri Lanka
testc

lasttestdate = 7 August
lasttestyear = 2008
lasttestagainst = South Africa
odidebutdate = 30 August
odidebutyear = 2006
odidebutagainst = Pakistan
odic

lastodidate = 3 September
lastodiyear = 2008
lastodiagainst = South Africa
odishirt = 8
club1 = Nottinghamshire
year1 = 2008–
clubnumber1 =
club2 = Leicestershire
year2 = 2005–2007
clubnumber2 =
deliveries = balls
columns = 4
column1 = Test
matches1 = 9
runs1 = 372
bat avg1 = 37.20
100s/50s1 = 0/3
top score1 = 76
deliveries1 = 1,928
wickets1 = 24
bowl avg1 = 43.41
fivefor1 = 0
tenfor1 = 0
best bowling1 = 3/44
catches/stumpings1 = 4/–
column2 = ODIs
matches2 = 37
runs2 = 236
bat avg2 = 21.45
100s/50s2 = 0/0
top score2 = 45*
deliveries2 = 1,813
wickets2 = 55
bowl avg2 = 26.21
fivefor2 = 1
tenfor2 = n/a
best bowling2 = 5/23
catches/stumpings2 = 10/–
column3 = FC
matches3 = 46
runs3 = 1,092
bat avg3 = 25.39
100s/50s3 = 0/8
top score3 = 91*
deliveries3 = 7,897
wickets3 = 153
bowl avg3 = 30.17
fivefor3 = 6
tenfor3 = 0
best bowling3 = 5/67
catches/stumpings3 = 14/–
column4 = LA
matches4 = 53
runs4 = 271
bat avg4 = 18.06
100s/50s4 = 0/0
top score4 = 45*
deliveries4 = 2,571
wickets4 = 78
bowl avg4 = 26.94
fivefor4 = 1
tenfor4 = n/a
best bowling4 = 5/23
catches/stumpings4 = 12/–
date = 20 September
year = 2008
source = http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/64/64168/64168.html CricketArchive

Stuart Christopher John Broad (born 24 June 1986 in Nottingham, 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.

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. 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.

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. [ [http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/ENG/Twenty20_Cup_2006/Bowling_by_Average.html Bowling in Twenty20 Cup 2006 (Ordered by Average)] , from CricketArchive, retrieved 26 August 2006] 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. [ [http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/ENG/Liverpool_Victoria_County_Championship_2006/Leicestershire_Bowling.html Bowling for Leicestershire in Liverpool Victoria County Championship 2006] , from Cricinfo, retrieved 26 August 2006] 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. [ [http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/australia/content/current/story/307924.html Broad joins Nottinghamshire] ]

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. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/5288076.stm Broad claims young player award] , from BBC, retrieved 26 August 2006] 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. [ [http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/engvpak/content/story/258019.html Pakistan ease to five-wicket win] Cricinfo report.] 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. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/6337425.stm England call up Broad for finals] from BBC, retrieved 7 February 2007] 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. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/6527543.stm England's Lewis departs World Cup] , "bbc.co.uk", 4 April 2007] 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. [BBC News [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/6256876.stm "England v West Indies 1st ODI"] retrieved 1 July 2007] 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. [ [http://stats.cricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/fow/highest_partnerships_by_wicket.html?class=2;id=1;type=team Record 8th wicket partnership] from Cricinfo, retrieved 30 August 2007]

On 19 September 2007, Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh hit six sixes from one Broad over in a Twenty20 International match at Durban, South Africa. [ [http://www.rediff.com/cricket/2007/sep/19yuvraj.htm Yuvraj belts six sixes in an over ] ] 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. [ [http://stats.cricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/averages/batting_bowling.html?id=3151;team=1;type=series Statistics - England in Sri Lanka 2007/08] from Cricinfo, retrieved 14 October 2007] 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. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/averages/default.stm England vs. New Zealand - ODI series, 2008] BBC News retrieved 25 February 2008] 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. [ [http://thevillagecricketer.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/stuart-broad-james-anderson-and-alastair-cook-naked-for-charity-mate/ Stuart Broad, James Anderson and Alastair Cook naked - for charity mate « The Village Cricketer ] ]

On the 6 June 2008, Broad scored his maiden test fifty with the bat against New Zealand at Trent Bridge making 64 before being bowled by Chris Martin. He then scored his second test fifty, in July 2008 in the test series against South Africa, scoring a new best of 76.In the second test at Headingley, Broad contributed 17 runs in the first innings, as England were 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 to the case that says that Broad can become not just a true all-rounder, but a classical batsman in his own right as well. After this second innings effort, Broad's test batting average rose to above 40. Broad's performances with the bat have led pundits to suggest he may become a genuine all rounder, with Geoffrey Boycott comparing Broad to Garfield Sobers. Boycott said "He's [Broad] a wonderful player. There's a little bit of Sobers in him". [cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/7518708.stm |title=Boycott hails Broad performance |publisher=BBC Online |date=22 July 2008 Retieved on 22 July 2008.]

Broad was surprisingly dropped 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 as Collingwood is no better bowler than Broad and Broad was actually in better batting form. Broad took seven wickets for Nottinghamshire against Durham while the Test was being played. On the 26th August 2008 Broad recorded his international career first 5 wicket haul and best figures of 5-23 against South Africa at his homeground of Trent Bridge in the second ODI of the series.

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, 11th July 2008)

Notes

External links

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* [http://www.cricket-online.org/player.php?player_id=59495 Cricket Online Profile]