Last Updated on July 30, 2023 by HBW2
English cricketer, Stuart Broad has announced his retirement from the sport on 29 July, 2023 (Saturday) after the end of day three in the fifth and final test against Australia at the Oval. Broad posses an impressive cricketing career taking 602 wickets in 167 test matches. He is a former One Day and T Twenty International captain. Broad was a member of the England team that won the 2010 ICC World Twenty20.
Full name of Stuart Broad is Stuart Christopher John Broad. Broad was born on 24 June, 1986, 12 weeks prematurely and his life was saved by a doctor called John, after whom he was named as ‘John’ in middle when he survived.
Broad was a right-arm seam bowler and left-handed batsman and began his professional career at Leicestershire. In 2008 he joined 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. This excellent performance was named as Wisden’s Men’s Test spell of the decade.
Broad was awarded the Man of the Match in the fifth Test of the 2009 Ashes series at the Oval, after making figures of 5/37 in the afternoon session of the second day. On 30 July 2011, at the Nottingham Test match against India, he achieved a Test match hat-trick in the process gaining his then best Test figures of 6–46. As a batsman, he holds the second-highest ever Test score made by a number 9, having scored 169 against Pakistan in August 2010. At the start of the summer in 2012 Broad, returning from injury, produced figures of 7 for 72 in a match haul of 11 wickets against the West Indies. He is England’s second highest wicket taker in Test cricket.
During the 2023 Ashes series against Australia, Broad joined the small list of bowlers to who take 600 wickets in Test cricket, after dismissing Travis Head. Broad is only the second fast bowler and second bowler for England to reach the milestone after James Anderson, who was bowling alongside him that day. In December 2021, in the second match of the 2021-22 Ashes series, Broad played in his 150th Test match. He is England’s second most-capped test cricketer after Anderson.
He was appointed as Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2016 for his services to cricket.