Stuart Broad’s 17 greatest moments, from refusing to walk to voiding an entire Ashes series From GeorgeRSimms:
. He built one of the great Test fast-bowling careers through a series of extraordinary ones, ripping through batting line-ups with voracious aplomb.and fifth-highest of all time, having defined an era of English cricket and come to embody the Ashes better than any other player of his generation.
But as Broad said after announcing his retirement on Saturday evening, the embarrassment and helplessness of that night in South Africa contributed to the greatness of everything that came after. This was the game that announced Broad as a future great, restricting Australia to a first-innings 160 having taken out five of their top seven as England won the game by 197 runs and the series 2-1. He looked like “This Ken does beach”, but bowled with nuclear fury.It’s easy to forget Broad is a white-ball world champion. He took eight wickets in six innings in the West Indies, including 2-21 in the semi-final win over Pakistan, as England won their first ICC event.
Broad had some sensational individual performances Down Under, but that England’s greatest modern Ashes figure could not retrieve the Urn himself is perhaps the biggest absence in his record book.The only Englishman to have two Test hat-tricks, and only the fourth player ever to manage it, Broad’s first came against India at his home ground Trent Bridge in 2011. MS Dhoni was caught at second slip, Harbhajan Singh went for a suspect lbw call before Praveen Kumar was bowled.