I never dreamt I'd be able to get eight wickets in a spell. "My previous best-ever bowling was 7 for 12 against Kimbolton School under-15s. "It was just one of those days you dream of really home ground, to pick up 300 Test wickets and then get a career-best," he said after play. By the time he added seven more, he walked off with a bowling average that's south of 29 for the first time in his career. To an extent, lost in the sheer madness of the morning was that Broad's first wicket, and best - an angled in, seamed away snorter to Chris Rogers from round the wicket - that constituted Broad's career 300th. On that basis, for punters out there, perhaps in hindsight predicting what occurred today should have been a formality. In 2013, the venue was Durham but the result the same, Broad's second innings 6 for 50 would gut the visitors' second innings run chase and secure the urn again.
In 2009 his five wickets in the first innings at The Oval marked the announcement of his arrival a devastating spell that ripped the heart out of Australia's late-series rally. Watch Australia's 10 dismissals at Trent Bridge That really shouldn't be the case though, as today was actually the third part of a compelling trilogy, for Broad has now (all but) bowled England to victory in the deciding rubbers of three consecutive Ashes series on these shores. The shots of him with hands over his mouth after wickets seven and eight suggest a sense of disbelief at what he had achieved. The hurt will take some getting over.īut it is Broad who has earned the majority of words here today. Going back a long way to when this squad was picked, it was designed expressly for success here and only here. Indeed, a generation or more will suffer this uneasy fate. The fallout: Michael Clarke and Mitchell Johnson, giants of modern Australian cricket, will never play in a winning Ashes side in England.
Let there be no doubt about it: this was worse than Laxman and Dravid in 2001, worse than failing to bowl out South Africa in Adelaide in 2012, worse than Boxing Day 2010 and even worse than Cape Town 2011. Sorry, this audio has expired Interview: Stuart Broad
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