As Stuart Broad announces retirement from international cricket, mid-day.com takes a look at the right-arm pacer’s then career-best 6-46 and maiden hat-trick in the 2011 Nottingham Test against India
Stuart Broad acknowledges the crowd after claiming a hat-trick against India at Nottingham in 2011. PIC/Getty Images
ENGLAND pacer Stuart Broad on Saturday announced his retirement from professional cricket. The 37-year-old will bring the curtains down on a 17-year international career after the ongoing fifth and final Ashes Test against Australia.
The right-arm medium pacer has claimed 602 wickets in 167 Test matches, while he has accounted for 178 and 65 dismissals in 121 ODIs and 56 T20Is respectively.
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Against India, Broad claimed 74 wickets in 24 Test matches, including a hat-trick in the second Test at Nottingham in 2011, which England won by a massive 319-run margin to lead the four-match series 2-0. Broad’s Nottingham magic will always haunt India. The pacer single-handedly took the game away from the visitors, not only with his bowling, but also his quickfire batting.
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England batting first, were struggling at 88-6, they were later reduced to 124-8, but the hosts managed to post 221 all out, thanks to Broad’s 66-ball 64. His innings was laced with nine fours. In reply, India looked comfortable at 273-5, before the local boy turned the match in England’s favour with his maiden Test hat-trick. Broad finished the innings with his then career-best Test figures of 6-46. He broke India’s backbone with 5-5 in the final spell as the visitors collapsed from 267-4 to 288 all out.
Broad repeated his magic with the bat. He counter-attacked the Indian bowlers with an aggressive 32-ball 44, including five fours and two maximums, to help England score a massive 544 all out and set a 478-run target.
Broad dismissed first innings centurion and opener Rahul Dravid for just six, while accounting for the final wicket of S Sreesanth.
He ended the series as the highest wicket-taker (25).
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