At the start of the summer in 2012 Stuart Broad, returning from injury, produced figures of 7 for 72 in a match haul of 11 wickets against the West Indies.
91 Facts About Stuart Broad
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Stuart Broad is England's second highest wicket taker in Test cricket.
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Stuart Broad was the fourth fast bowler, and second bowler for England to reach the milestone after James Anderson, who achieved it against the same batsman.
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Stuart Broad was born 12 weeks prematurely and his life was saved by a doctor called John, after whom he was named when he survived.
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Stuart Broad originally started his cricketing career as an opening batsman, following in the footsteps of his father, the former England opener and current ICC match referee Chris Stuart Broad.
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Stuart Broad had been associated with Leicestershire since he was 8 years old, having represented them at Under-9 level, and played for Melton Mowbray club Egerton Park, which produced England seamer Tim Munton.
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Stuart Broad played for Egerton Park from the ages of 9 to 19; in his final two seasons he opened the batting with fellow Leicestershire player Matthew Boyce and spearheaded the attack.
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Stuart Broad was awarded the Leicestershire Young Cricketers Batsman Award in 1996.
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Stuart 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.
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Stuart Broad finished his school career with three B grades at A-level, and was given the choice of a place at Durham University or a contract with Leicestershire County Cricket Club.
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Stuart 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.
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Stuart 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.
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Stuart Broad followed this appearance with his first County Championship appearance against Somerset at the familiar location of Oakham.
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On 23 August 2007 it was announced that Stuart Broad would be leaving Leicestershire at the end of the season to join Nottinghamshire, after choosing not to renew his contract and to return to his home county.
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Stuart Broad was out for a duck and got three wickets in his last over wrapping up the game against Glamorgan.
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Stuart Broad was a part of the Nottinghamshire side that beat Surrey in the final of the Royal London One Day Cup in 2017 played at Lords.
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Stuart Broad played for the England Under-19 squad in 2005, facing the Sri Lankan Under-19 squad, and took five for seventeen in the first 'Test' at Shenley.
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Stuart Broad was included in the ECB's 25-man development squad for the 2006 season.
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On 23 August 2006, Stuart 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.
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Stuart 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.
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Stuart Broad bowled ten overs and ended with figures of three for 57 with one maiden.
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Stuart Broad was called into England's squad as a replacement partway through the 2007 World Cup.
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Stuart Broad finished the tournament by scoring the winning runs in England's final match against the West Indies.
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Stuart Broad was expensive in the final match of the series, conceding 71 runs for no wickets.
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Stuart Broad took his first wicket against India in the ODI against them in the second match at Bristol.
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Stuart Broad hit an unbeaten 45 to take his first ODI Man of the Match award.
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The 36 runs from the Stuart Broad over helped Yuvraj Singh make the quickest 50 in international cricket, off just 12 balls.
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Stuart 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.
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Stuart Broad went on to have an equally successful ODI series against New Zealand.
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England won the second match by six wickets, although Stuart Broad picked up no wickets in the match.
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On 6 June 2008, Stuart Broad scored his maiden Test fifty, against New Zealand at Trent Bridge, making 64 before being bowled by Chris Martin.
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Stuart Broad made his second Test fifty in July 2008, in the Test series against South Africa, scoring a new best of 76.
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Stuart Broad was surprisingly dropped for the following Test at Edgbaston, making way for the returning Paul Collingwood.
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Stuart Broad duly took seven wickets for Nottinghamshire against Durham while the Test was being played.
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On 26 May 2009, Stuart Broad was named Man of the Series against the West Indies in England.
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Stuart Broad took a total of six wickets, and England won the series two-nil after the first ODI was rained out.
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Stuart Broad spurned two run-out opportunities from the first two balls, and dropped a catch off the third.
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The Dutch needed two runs from the final ball to win, and got them after Stuart 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.
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Stuart Broad scored a 22-ball 19 in England's first-innings total of 435, but in 32 overs he took just one wicket as Australia amassed 674 for 6 declared, with four centurions.
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Stuart Broad finished the tour with an aggregate of 234 runs and 18 wickets, leading England's bowling figures both in wickets taken and in bowling average.
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Stuart Broad was the second highest wicket taker overall throughout the tournament with 10 wickets in 3 matches, only behind Wayne Parnell who took 11 in the same number of matches.
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Stuart Broad's injuries continued through to the tour of South Africa, keeping him out of the two twenty20 matches, which both ended up being abandoned.
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When Stuart Broad returned he instantly made an impact with numerous wickets but turned out to be very expensive.
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Stuart Broad's batting was unsuccessful, getting only 17 and a duck.
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Stuart Broad took the wicket of Mark Boucher the next day to leave Graeme Swann to dismiss the rest of the South African line up.
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Injuries to Anderson, Onions and Sidebottom meant that Stuart Broad was the leader of a relatively inexperienced pace attack.
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Stuart Broad won the man of the match award against Sri Lanka in the semi-final, and overall took 8 wickets at an average of 17.50.
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Back in England, Stuart Broad was rested for the home series against Bangladesh before returning to the side for a 5-match ODI series against Australia.
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England lost the last two games, though Stuart Broad did achieve another four-wicket haul in the fifth game to finish the series with an average of 19.83.
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Stuart Broad surpassed his father's Test best of 162, and they became the first father and son both to score centuries for England in Test match cricket.
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Stuart Broad had an indifferent tour of Australia, which was cut short due to injury.
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Stuart Broad started with a half-century in a warm-up game, and overall took 6 wickets over the two games against Western Australia and South Australia.
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Stuart Broad took five wickets from his final 16 balls of the innings, without conceding a single run.
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Stuart Broad took two wickets in the second innings to beat India and for England to become World number 1 in Test Cricket.
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Stuart Broad made a lesser impact in the fourth Test, taking two wickets in each of India's innings, and did not bat, due to an early declaration.
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Stuart Broad took just two wickets in the match, although he made 33 runs with the bat in the match, and was not out in the second innings.
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Stuart Broad soon followed this up by taking 4 more wickets in the next innings, missing a possible hat trick however, to get Test best figures of 11 for 165, being the first to take a 10 wicket haul at Lord's since Ian Botham in 1978.
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Stuart Broad had to wait until after Lunch on the 4th day to take the last 3 wickets he needed for the haul.
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Stuart Broad was named Man of the Match the next day after England won by 5 wickets, in a chase of 191.
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Stuart Broad followed the performance by taking four wickets in the second test.
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Stuart Broad was rested for the last Test match against the West Indies along with James Anderson.
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Stuart Broad was then named in the squad to play Australia in a five match ODI series.
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Stuart Broad's bowling was overshadowed by Finn who took 11 wickets in four games compared to Stuart Broad's 5.
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Stuart Broad was picked in the first Test against South Africa but failed to take a wicket.
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Stuart Broad added 16 with the bat in England's first innings of 386.
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Stuart Broad then scored 1 run in England's innings of 425.
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Stuart Broad then had a burst of wickets on the last day with the wickets of AB de Villiers and JP Duminy in successive deliveries.
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Stuart Broad only managed one wicket in South Africa's first innings of 309.
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Stuart Broad then added 16 in England's first innings of 315.
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Stuart Broad was on 37 at the time of the incident and went to make 65, sharing a partnership of 138 with Ian Bell.
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England went on to win the match by 14 runs with Stuart Broad taking the wickets of Shane Watson and Clarke in Australia's second innings.
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On 2 August 2013, Stuart Broad took his 200th Test wicket, bowling Clarke in the first innings of the drawn third Ashes Test at Old Trafford.
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Stuart Broad continued as captain for the tour of the West Indies.
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Stuart Broad was named captain of the England cricket team for the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 in Bangladesh.
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Stuart Broad did not take a wicket in the first two games, as England lost to New Zealand and beat Sri Lanka.
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Stuart Broad bowled well on a good batting pitch in the first game of the series against India, taking four wickets in the match.
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Stuart Broad was badly injured while batting and it was later revealed he had broken his nose.
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Stuart Broad failed to take a wicket against Scotland as England won their first match of the tournament, and finished wicket less as England suffered a nine wicket defeat against Sri Lanka, meaning he had failed to take a wicket in his past three matches.
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However, England collapsed in their second innings and Stuart Broad himself was out for a duck.
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Stuart Broad made 46 with the bat to help England level the scores after the first innings.
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Stuart Broad did not take a wicket in the Australians second innings as they won by 405 runs.
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Stuart Broad played in the first Test against Pakistan, which was played in the UAE.
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Stuart Broad was rested for the second Test, which England lost.
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Stuart Broad missed the next two Tests through injury, but returned in the fifth Test.
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On 22 March 2018, In the first Test against New Zealand, Stuart Broad took his 400th wicket in Tests and became the youngest fast bowler to do so.
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On 29 May 2020, Stuart Broad was named in a 55-man group of players to begin training ahead of international fixtures starting in England following the COVID-19 pandemic.
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On 17 June 2020, Stuart Broad was included in England's 30-man squad to start training behind closed doors for the Test series against the West Indies.
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On 4 July 2020, Stuart Broad was named in England's thirteen-man squad for the first Test match of the series.
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Stuart Broad was not selected for the first test, a match that England subsequently lost, and publicly vented his frustration.
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Stuart Broad took 6 wickets after being recalled for the second match of the series, an England win.
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Stuart Broad is in a relationship with The Saturdays singer and BBC Radio 1 presenter Mollie King, and they became engaged in January 2021.