Stuart Broad: England’s young aggressive bowler
England’s Stuart Broad is http://www.senore.com/Cricket/A-Young-c41367 aggressive seamer who can turn the game with his match-winning spells. He is tall with a strong high-arm action and has an amazing ability to move the ball around. Broad is one of the most economical pacers in the current
team who can also be a handful with his classic left-handed batting.
The young bowler is a keen learner of the game and improving day-by-day with maturity and experience. The player, who was shaping up to be an opening batsman in the early days of his cricket, had transformed himself into medium-fast bowler within 18 months
of time, before the beginning of his career. England will be looking at Broad to make early in-roads against their opponents during the ICC World Cup 2011.
The only slight issue in his growth is a tendency towards irritability, a characteristic he appears to have inherited from his father Chris Broad, a former England opening batsman now serving as an ICC match referee. Broad started his profession career at
a very young age, playing for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 and after his promising performances in the
junior side, gifted him a place in the national side.
Broad made his One Day International debut against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754. He is outstanding at pitching the ball up and nipping it away from the right-handed
batsmen.
In his 73 ODI games, Broad has picked up 124 wickets at average of 25, which is the fifth best among all bowlers who have picked up 100 or more wickets since 2006. Broad’s performance in the Subcontinent is also a thing to talk about. He has 21 wickets in
Asia at an average of 26.66 and his 7 wickets in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 have come at an average over 38.
The youngster has plenty of talent and calibre in him and with a tall stature, Broad is fully proficient of producing bounce from the pitch with a good pace. He performed well in the 2009 Ashes and won the Man of the Match award in the 5th Test after figures
of 5 for 37. Broad was also a vital part of the English side which won the recent ICC T20 World Cup.
Broad is not only good with the new ball, but also he has the competence of picking up wickets in the middle of the innings. His most horrible nightmare came at the Twenty20 World Cup 2007 when http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Yuvraj-Singh-c98364 smashed him a six on each ball of his over, resulting
in 36 runs in one over
He is young bowler who has bright prospects of becoming a vital member of the English squad. Broad has done extremely well in the absence of higher-ranking players like Harmison, Hoggard and Flintoff, as his strong performances have secured his place in
the English side. He received the Man of the Series prize in a series against the West Indies and also remained overshadowed in the first two Ashes Tests against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 in 2009.
Broad is making his second appearance in a World Cup and he will be sharing the new ball with James Anderson during their crucial matches. England will be hoping that Broad can bowl accurately and take wickets at regular intervals, if they are to have a
chance in making a mark during the tournament. It will be exciting to see how Broad shoulders the responsibility of all the expectations as England chase the coveted trophy
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