The feelings haven’t actually sunk in at The Oval since Stuart Broad introduced he’ll retire from cricket on the finish of the continued Ashes Take a look at match.
Former England skipper Alastair Cook dinner, who captained the facet to primary Take a look at rankings with Broad by his facet would additionally pen down an emotional observe for the veteran seamer in his Sunday Occasions column.
“Only a few of us are privileged sufficient to decide on how we bow out,” Cook dinner wrote. “He deserves that. As I watched him announce his retirement on Sky Sports activities, I felt fairly emotional. I’ll genuinely miss watching him play.”
“Solely Jimmy [James Anderson] is left now from the workforce who acquired to No. 1 within the Take a look at rankings and are the one England facet to have received the Ashes in Australia since 1986-87. I bear in mind him telling me how a lot he was wanting ahead to us all having a glass of purple collectively once we have been all retired. Broady, I’ll have the bottle prepared however first there’s a job to be completed in south London,” he added.
With only one wicket left within the second England innings, Broad walked out to bat with Anderson on Day 4, guiding England to 395 in an unbeaten cameo with the bat that noticed him pull Mitchell Starc over deep mid wicket for a six off what would transform his final ball in skilled cricket.
In response, Australian openers added 135 runs for the primary wicket with each David Warner and Usman Khawaja scoring half centuries earlier than rain halted play, pushing the destiny of the match and the collection to its final day.