An ode to Stuart Broad: England’s underrated, but best, big-time bowler | Barney Ronay


The willowy paceman will succeed on England’s tour to India simply because the big moments just happen to a man who has never enjoyed the same adulation as Jimmy Anderson

From a purely fun point of view it has always seemed a bit of a shame Stuart Broad didn’t end up making it as a top-order batsman, which was the plan coming through the age groups, right up until the moment he started eating ravenously and grew almost a foot in his eighteenth year.

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