Broad&#39;s spell of six wickets for 20 runs in 45 balls ripped the heart out of an Australian batting line-up that was, at tea, looking well set to reach the improbable 299 run target set by England. The Sun celebrated his exploits with the headline &quot;Stuperhero&quot;, the Daily Mail with &quot;Stupendous!&quot; while the Daily Telegraph splashed &quot;Brilliant Broad&quot; across its back page. The Times headline declared &quot;Australia hit for six by Broad&quot; and the Guardian said England was &quot;on top of the world&quot;. <img alt="Stuart Broad" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2013/aug/broad13aug.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 353px;" /> Stuart Broad. Pic/ AFP England had already retained the Ashes after drawing the third Test in Manchester, but victory at Chester-le-Street put them 3-0 up with one game to play and ensured a series victory. The Guardian&#39;s Andy Bull called man-of-the-match Broad&#39;s display &quot;some of the finest pace bowling in recent Ashes history&quot;. &quot;Broad seemed to be fuelled by anger, as if sick of the listlessness which has dogged England through much of this Test and the last,&quot; he wrote. &quot;His nostrils were flared, his cheeks were red, his eyes wide. &quot;And the crowd ...sparked into renewed life, roaring the team on towards a victory that had seemed improbable but soon became inevitable. &#39;He&#39;s big, he&#39;s bad, he&#39;s better than his Dad! Stuart Broad! Stuart Broad!&#39; the Barmy Army cried.&quot; Broad&#39;s father, Chris, scored three centuries when England won the Ashes in Australia in 1986/87. Former England captain and Times columnist Michael Atherton called Monday &quot;one of the most dramatic days&quot; in cricket and paid tribute to Broad, but also to Australians Ryan Harris and Chris Rogers, who shined in defeat. &quot;The full stop to it all was fittingly applied by Stuart Broad,&quot; he wrote. &quot;As tight as the cricket has been at times, the scoreline is now a crushing one. &quot;Test cricket can be beautiful, as Broad would confirm, and cruel, and neither Harris nor Rogers deserved to be losers last night.&quot; The Daily Telegraph&#39;s Jim White also mused upon the &quot;extraordinary&quot; drama that unfolded. &quot;There was a moment on Monday when it became clear what an extraordinary day of cricket this was,&quot; he explained. &quot;As James Anderson came in to bowl to Usman Khawaja the sky behind him was coal black. Over his shoulder as he ran up, lightning sparked and sizzled in the distance. &quot;Even the elements, it seemed, did not want a second of this unmissable drama to be disturbed. &quot;It was exactly the kind of switchback day that gives the traditionalist the ammunition to argue the superiority of the long form game,&quot; he added. Daily Mail columnist and ex-England captain Nasser Hussain said Broad had produced &quot;one of his best spells for England&quot;. &quot;Broad has the ability to be a destructive, match-winning bowler -- he has done it before and will do it again,&quot; he said. &quot;For that reason, he is a great man to have in your side, because there may be more consistent performers around, but he has it in him to bowl a magical spell which turns a game. That is what he did yesterday, when his team really needed inspiration.&quot;

The grinning face of England's golden boy Stuart Broad adorned Britain's front pages on Tuesday after his devastating spell of fast bowling secured Ashes glory for his team

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