Stuart Christopher John Broad, MBE is an English cricketer who plays Test cricket for the England cricket team. 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. He is England’s second highest wicket taker in Test cricket. As a batsman he holds the second-highest ever Test score made by a number 9.
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Stuart Christopher John Broad, MBE is an English cricketer who plays Test cricket for the England cricket team. 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. He is England’s second highest wicket taker in Test cricket. As a batsman he holds the second-highest ever Test score made by a number 9. He made 169, his only century in first-class cricket, against Pakistan in August 2010. In 2013, Broad played the final game of the Yorkshire Bank Bank 40 tournament, against Glamorgan. He played for England Under-19s in the 2007 Under-20s World Cup. He has also captained England in the ODI and T20 World Cups. Broad is the son of former England opener and current ICC match referee Chris Broad. He was born 12 weeks prematurely and his life was saved by a doctor called John, after whom he was named when he survived. Broad was educated at Brooke Priory School and Oakham School, a co-educational independent school in the market town of Oakham in Rutland, where he was in the same year as England Rugby back-row Tom Croft. He also played field hockey as a goalkeeper, and had trialled with England national field hockey team.
Broad played for Melton Mowbray club Egerton Park, which also produced England seamer Tim Munton. He started his cricketing career as an opening batsman and followed in the footsteps of his father, the former England open and ICC match ref Chris Broad, who is also a match referee. In his final two seasons he opened the batting with fellow Leicesterhire player Matthew Boyce and spearheaded the attack. Broad made his first first- class debut early in the 2005 season against Durham University Centre of Cricketing Excellence. He impressed enough to be given a full contract for the following season. Broad continued to impress Director of Cricket James Whitaker and returned credible figures of 140 from 15 overs. His most eye-catching performances were in the Twenty Cup, where his economy of 4.20 overs bowled was second-best of bowlers more than 15 overs per game. In 2012 Broad, returning from injury, produced figures of 7 for 72 in a match haul of 11 wickets against the West Indies. On 23 August it was announced that Broad would be leaving Leicetershire at the end of the season to return to his home county of Nottinghamshire. He returned to the England squad to join Nottinghamshire after choosing not to renew his contract with the county. Broad’s last game for England was against Gorgan in August 2007.
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