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English fast bowler Stuart Broad surprised everyone as he announced his decision of drawing curtains on his career on the fourth day of the final Ashes Test. Broad is England’s second-highest wicket-taker in the Test format, with a total of 602 wickets in 167 games he has played for his side. While Broad enjoyed a glorious Test career, his ODI and T20I careers couldn’t be as memorable. The English bowler addressed the media following the third day of Ashes, where he recalled being hit six sixes in an over by Yuvraj Singh.
Broad was in his second year of international cricket when the former India player Yuvraj Singh hammered him for six consecutive sixes in an over in the T20 World Cup in 2007. Addressing the media on Saturday, July 29, Broad reflected on how being hit for six maximums in an over by Yuvraj affected him.
Broad said, “Yeah, it was obviously a pretty rough day. What would I have been: 21, 22? I learned loads. I pretty much based a whole mental routine through that experience knowing that I was left very short as an international performer in that moment. I’d rushed my preparation. I didn’t have any sort of pre-ball routine. I didn’t have any focus, particularly, and I started building my ‘warrior mode’ that I call it after that experience.”
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The 37-year-old added, “Of course, I wish that didn’t happen. I think what helped me was it was a dead rubber, so it didn’t feel like I’d knocked us out of the World Cup or something. But I think it steeled me up to make me the competitor I am to this day and has driven me forward a huge amount.”
Notably, Broad appeared in 121 ODI games, having played the last 50-over game for his side in 2016. Apart from it, he played 56 T20I games and appeared in his side’s T20I squad in 2014.