Quick Facts

Stuart Broad plays cricket for England. He bowls for the England cricket team mostly. He is the former captain of the England One Day and Twenty 20 International teams and currently represents England in Test cricket. At Leicestershire, he began playing cricket professionally in 2005. In 2008, he moved to Nottinghamshire. In August 2006, he made his England debut.

How much is the Net worth of Stuart Broad?

Cricketer Stuart Broad is well-liked in England. He began playing cricket professionally in 2005, and since 2006, he has been a member of England’s national cricket team. Contracts, salaries, endorsements, and sponsorships provide the majority of his revenue. He apparently receives a salary of close to $1 million. He also owns Stuart Broad Ltd., a sports business. His estimated net worth is around $70 million.

Early Years and Bio

On June 24, 1986, Stuart Broad was born. Stuart Christopher John Broad is his real name. In England’s Nottingham, he was born. He is of English descent. His mother, Michelle Broad, and his father, Chris Broad, welcomed him into the world. He practices Christianity and is of the white ethnicity. Gemma is the name of his sister. He is under the sign of Cancer.

He went to Oakham School and Brooke Priory School. Three B grades at A-levels were his final academic standing. He had the option of signing a contract with Leicestershire County Cricket Club or getting a spot at Durham University.

What is the Professional Career of Stuart Broad?

Stuart Broad began participating in cricket at a young age. He initially entered the game as the opening batsman. He participated in tryouts with an England underage team when he was 16 years old and thought about becoming a goalie in field hockey. Around age 17, he transitioned to fast bowling. Since he was eight years old, he had ties to Leicestershire.
From the age of nine to nineteen, he played for Melton Mowbray’s Egerton Park. After putting on a strong showing for the Leicestershire 2nd XI in 2004, he was awarded a full contract with Leicestershire. With Leicestershire, he began playing cricket professionally in 2005.

In 2005, he played in his first-ever first-class match against Durham University Center of Cricketing Excellence. In 2005, he was a member of the England U19 team. He was selected for the 2005–2006 winter season’s ECB National Academy squad.Later, he was selected for the England “A” team’s trip of the West Indies. He was James Anderson’s stand-in. In the 2006 season, he recorded his first five-wicket haul against Surrey, the favorite to win the championship. In 2006, he was selected to travel with the England A team to Sri Lanka.
Against Derbyshire, he recorded his first championship 50. In the County Championship, he led his county in both wickets and bowling average. Before being called up for England, he got 44 wickets in 12 matches for an average of 31.38.

More on Career

On August 28, 2006, he played his maiden Twenty20 match for England against Pakistan. He had two consecutive wickets but fell short of a hat-trick. He played Pakistan in his first ODI match two days later, on August 30. In his first over, he took a wicket. In 2007, he helped England win its first ever ODI series in Sri Lanka by taking 11 wickets. He was chosen for England’s Test team as a result of his performance. In December 2007, he played his first Test against Sri Lanka. At the conclusion of the 2007 season, he joined his home county of Nottinghamshire and departed Leicestershire. Since 2008, he has represented Nottinghamshire in domestic cricket.  He faced South Africa in August 2008 and picked up his first five-wicket haul in his international career.

After taking six wickets in England’s victory over the West Indies in the ODI series in May 2009, he was named Man of the Series (one-day). He played for the England T20 squad at the 2009 ICC World Twenty20, which placed second. During England’s 2009 ICC Champions Trophy campaign, he sustained an injury. He had a role in England’s 2010 ICC World Twenty20 victory. In the championship, England defeated Australia. After becoming involved in a disciplinary issue in the second Test of the home series against Pakistan, he was penalised 50% of his match fee. Broad pitched a ball down the pitch, which Pakistani batsman Zulqarnain Haider successfully defended. Broad then scooped up the ball and flung it at Haider, injuring him in the hand. In the final Test of the series against Pakistan in 2010, he notched his first century (in all formats).

After tearing a muscle during England’s tour of Australia in 2010, he was unable to play in the Test and One-Day International series. During the 2011 series against India, he scored three goals. He recorded a hat-trick by getting rid of Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Harbhajan Singh, and Praveen Kumar. He was chosen as the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 cricket team’s captain. Following his performance in the Test series against South Africa in 2015, he rose to the top spot among Test bowlers in the world rankings. He played for Nottinghamshire, which defeated Surrey in the 2017 Royal London One Day Cup final at Lords.

Who is the wife of Stuart Broad?

Stuart Broad is engaged but not yet married. The Saturdays singer and BBC Radio 1 host Mollie King is dating the Englishman. In 2018, the couple began dating. In January 2021, they became engaged. They made the news of their first child’s impending arrival in June 2022.

Body Stats: How tall is Stuart Broad?

Stuart Broad’s height is 6 feet and 6 inches tall, or 1.98 meters. He weighs about 80 kg in total. His physique is athletic. His hair is dark blonde, and he has blue eyes. Straight is the way he identifies sexually.

Trivia

• He was born 12 weeks prematurely and was saved by a doctor called John, after whom he was (middle) named when he survived.
• His father is a former England opener (who played Test cricket for England from 1984 to 1989) and current ICC match referee.
• His stepmother Michelle “Miche” Broad died by suicide in July 2010.
• His sister worked for the England team as a tea analyst.
• In 1996, he was awarded the Leicestershire Young Cricketers Batsman Award.
• He was voted the Cricket Writers’ Club Young Cricketer of the Year in 2006.
• In September 2007, Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh hit six sixes from one Broad over.
• During the tour of New Zealand in 2008, Broad, along with Alastair Cook and James Anderson, posed naked for the Cosmopolitan paper with just a cricket bat for cover.
• Broad and Jonathan Trott set a world record for an eight-wicket partnership in 2010 when they went on a 332-run partnership for the 8th wicket. He named went on the Lord’s batting honours board.
• Broad and his father are the first father and son both both to score centuries for England in Test match cricket.

 

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• He became the 8th player to join an elite club of all-rounders to be on Lord’s both honours boards after he achieved a five-wicket haul against the West Indies in 2012.
• He became the first to take a 10-wickets haul at Lord’s since Ian Botham in 1978.
• He set a new record for the longest time spent at the crease without scoring a run, with 103 minutes out in the middle, facing 62 balls on the fifth day of the 3rd Test against the New Zealand in 2013.
• He is the first Englishman to take two Test hat-tricks.
• NET tram 237 was named in honour of Broad in September 2015.
• He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to cricket.
• In 2018, he became the youngest fast bowler to reach 400th wickets in Tests.
• In 2020, he became the seventh bowler to take 500 wickets in Test cricket. He also became the fourth fast bowler and the second English bowler to reach the milestone.
• He moved to second in the all-time list of test match ducks (37) following his dismissal for 0 in the second test against New Zealand in 2021.
• He is a supporter of Nottingham Forest FC and Leicester Tigers.

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