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Updated on April 2nd 2022, 3:44:31 pm

Top 5 Best Stuart Broad bowling performances

Stuart Broad is one of the best characters in the game of cricket as well who does not shy away from speaking his mind. Here we look at his top 5 best bowling performances.

Since we are talking about the best performances of English cricket legends, then we cannot leave out this legend that we will be talking about now. He has along with Jimmy Anderson been the most successful fast bowling pair in the history of test cricket and he has been extremely successful in ODI cricket as well and just like his bowling partner he is still going strong and would love to touch the 600 test wickets mark and join Jimmy Anderson in that list.


Stuart Broad is one of the best characters in the game of cricket as well who does not shy away from speaking his mind and he has done things especially In test cricket that not many fast bowlers have been able to do for a long period of time and he can still play for a good 2-3 years. Let’s look at his Top 5 Best bowling performances..


8/15 vs Australia (2015)


This is the career best bowling performance by Stuart Broad and it came in the Ashes against Australia in 2015 at Trent Bridge and this was one of those spells of fast bowling where the batting line-up was blown away by one bowler and he only gave away 15 runs while taking 8 wickets in the innings. Australia were batting first in this test match and their great batting order got bowled out for just 60 runs within 19 overs of batting and it was the great Stuart Broad who did 80% of the damage and all the England fans were loving every second of it.

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7/44 vs New Zealand (2013)

This was the fourth Innings of the test match against New Zealand at Lord’s and yet again it was Stuart Broad who was at the thick of things as he yet again showed his greatness And absolutely destroyed the New Zealand batting In the fourth Innings and they got all out for just 66 in less than 23 overs and it looks like Stuart Broad likes getting the opposition out for scores less than 70. A truly special bowler.


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7/72 vs West Indies (2012)


The venue for this incredible performance is yet again the Home Of Cricket which is Lord’s and yet again it was Stuart Broad who stood up for England and bowled an outstanding spell of fast bowling on a pitch that was suitable for his style if bowling and he took full advantage of it and in the first innings of this test match he never allowed the West Indies batters to settle in and get big scores and he kept picking up Wickets At regular intervals and West Indies were bowled out for a score of 243 and England then won this test match by 5 wickets.


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6/17 vs South Africa (2016)


This was the best away bowling performance by Stuart Broad and it came against South Africa at Wanderers in Johannesburg in 2016. He proved with this spell of fast bowling that he is not a one country bowler. This was the second innings of this test match where the match was evenly poised and Stuart Broad yet again bowled extraordinarily well and got South Africa out just for 83 runs and England won this test match by 7 wickets and Stuart Broad was the hero of this match and the world had to acknowledge his greatness.


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5/23 vs South Africa (2008)


The best bowling figures of Jimmy Anderson and Stuart Broad in ODIs are identical and it’s fitting in a way that these two absolute legends of cricket are similar. This was an ODI match against South Africa in 2008 in Nottingham and Broad was at his imperious best and he absolutely ripped apart the South Africa batting line-up which was great at that time and England got South Africa out at 83 runs which makes it 4 out of 5 best bowling performances by Stuart Broad where the opposition was got out before the score of 100 which is absolutely mind-blowing.


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