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Full name Brian Christopher Broad
Born September 29, 1957, Knowle, Somerset
Current age 51 years 12 days
Major teams England,Gloucestershire,Nottinghamshire,Orange Free State
Nickname Walter, Broodie
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Other Referee, Commentator
Height
6 ft 4 in
Education St Paul's College, Cheltenham
Relations Son - SCJ Broad
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
25
44
2
1661
162
39.54
4387
37.86
6
6
173
1
10
0
ODIs
34
34
0
1361
106
40.02
2447
55.61
1
11
81
3
10
0
First-class
340
613
38
21892
227*
38.07
50
105
189
0
List A
319
314
15
10396
122
34.76
11
68
82
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
25
1
6
4
0
-
-
-
4.00
-
0
0
0
ODIs
34
1
6
6
0
-
-
-
6.00
-
0
0
0
First-class
340
1631
1037
16
2/14
64.81
3.81
101.9
0
0
List A
319
1027
920
25
3/46
3/46
36.80
5.37
41.0
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
England v West Indies at Lord's, Jun 28-Jul 3, 1984 scorecard
Last Test
England v Australia at Lord's, Jun 22-27, 1989 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
Australia v England at Perth, Jan 1, 1987 scorecard
Last ODI
England v West Indies at Lord's, May 23-24, 1988 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1979 - 1994
List A span
1979 - 1994
ICC match referee statistics
Test debut
New Zealand v Pakistan at Hamilton, Dec 19-23, 2003 scorecard
Last Test
West Indies v Sri Lanka at Port of Spain, Apr 3-6, 2008 scorecard
Test matches
27
Test statistics
ODI debut
New Zealand v Pakistan at Auckland, Jan 3, 2004 scorecard
Last ODI
Sri Lanka v India at Colombo (RPS), Aug 29, 2008 scorecard
ODI matches
133
ODI statistics
T20I debut
South Africa v New Zealand at Johannesburg, Oct 21, 2005 scorecard
Last T20I
Ireland v Netherlands at Belfast, Aug 5, 2008 scorecard
T20I matches
25
T20I statistics
Profile
A tall left-handed opener who batted with his bottom inelegantly stuck out towards square-leg, Chris Broad was an unusually single-minded and ambitious county cricketer. His occasional gracelessness was the flip-side of his impressive determination, and in 1983 he left his home-town club Gloucestershire for Nottinghamshire, whingeing that their unambitiousness had held him back. England rewarded this theoretically frowned-on move by picking him at once. This paid off spectacularly against the weak Australian team of 1986-87 when Broad equalled Jack Hobbs and Wally Hammond by scoring centuries in three successive Tests of an Ashes series. He scored a further 139 in the dreary Sydney bicentenary Test a year later but smashed the stumps down after being bowled. And when he was seen mouthing off after being given lbw at Lord's, he was dropped - ostensibly for loss of form, but the England management was getting increasingly tough-minded after the free-for-all of the Ian Botham era, and petulance was out of fashion: Broad only ever played two more Tests. Later, he became more serene but less effective, returning in peace to Gloucestershire and then joining the BBC TV commentary team before it was disbanded. His commentary was as well-honed as his batting, though his flair for it was less obvious. His subsequent reincarnation as an ICC match referee was a classic poacher-turned-gamekeeper situation.
Matthew Engel
