Stuart Broad

Stuart Broad is a cricketer who plays International cricket for England

Stuart Broad (born 24 June 1986) is a cricketer who plays Test and One Day International cricket for England. A right-arm seam bowler and left-handed batsman, Broad's professional career started at Leicestershire, the team attached to his school, Oakham School; 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.

Broad was awarded the Man of the Match in the fifth Test of the 2009 Ashes series at the Oval, after 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—he made 169, his only century in first-class cricket, 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. Broad is the second leading English test wicket taker.

Stuart Broad's father, Chris Broad, played Test Cricket for England in 1980s. His sister Gemma works for the England team as a team analyst. He supports Nottingham Forest F.C. and Leicester Tigers. Stuart's stepmother Michelle "Miche" Broad took her own life in July 2010. She was suffering with motor neurone disease. In April 2018, it was confirmed that he was dating The Saturdays singer Mollie King but they split in August 2018.

On 17 September 2015, NET tram 237 was named in honour of Broad.

He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to cricket.

Competing against nearly 6 million other managers, he was ranked the Number 1 manager in the popular football game Fantasy Premier League for the 37th Gameweek of the 2017/2018 version of the game, sparking minor media attention.

At the conclusion of the 2nd Test in Pakistan's tour of the United Kingdom in 2018, Broad and Anderson had tallied up 810 test wickets playing together across 106 tests, third all-time on the list of bowling pairs in tests, behind only Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne (1,001 wickets in 104 tests together) and Chaminda Vaas and Muttiah Muralitharan (895 wickets in 95 tests together)