Chris Broad
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Brian Christopher Broad, usually known as Chris Broad (born 29 September 1957, Knowle, Bristol
, England
) is a former England Test cricket
er and current Test official. An opening batsman, Broad had a 25-match long international Test career during which he hit six centuries, together with 34 One Day International matches with a respectable over 40 average. He is known largely for his feats during the 1986/87 Ashes series where he hit three centuries in consecutive Tests, and for his fiery demeanour at the crease. He went on to become a Test official, while his son, bowler Stuart
, represents the same teams as his father, England and Nottinghamshire
. Cricket correspondent, Colin Bateman, noted, "Chris Broad pressed the self-destruct button on a career that promised so much. His lack of self-control at the crease brought a sad end to his reign as England opener at the age of 30, when he should have been enjoying his prime years".
to parents Ken and Nancy, Broad suffered from osteomyelitis
at the age of 15 and this delayed his development as a cricketer. His first-class debut came for Gloucestershire
in 1979 and he secured a permanent place in the team the following summer. As well as Nottinghamshire, he also played for Orange Free State
. Returning to Gloucestershire in 1993, Broad retired at the end of the 1994 season with a hip injury.
debut for England
in 1984, in the second Test match against the West Indies
at Lord's
. Opening the batting with Graeme Fowler
, Broad scored 55 in an opening partnership of 101 runs. Fowler went on to score 106 runs, however England were bowled out for 286. The West Indies reached 245 in response. England's second innings began poorly, Broad being dismissed for a duck
having faced only nine balls, and the West Indies reached the 342 run target set for them thanks to 214* from Gordon Greenidge
. Broad therefore averaged 27.50 in his debut Test match.
Broad opened in the next Test match against the West Indies at Headingley, Yorkshire beginning on 12 July 1984, scoring 32 and two. He scored 42 and 21 in the next Test, and four and 39 in the final Test of the series, ending his first series with 195 runs at 24.37. Broad then played one Test match against Sri Lanka, scoring his highest score thus far, 86 in a drawn Test match. Broad did not play for England again until 14 November 1986 during the 1986 Ashes series. He began quietly with eight and 35*, however in the second Test at Perth
he scored 162 and 16. He then scored 116 and 15* at Adelaide
, 112 at Melbourne
and six and 17 in Sydney. He ended this Ashes tour with 487 runs and three centuries from nine innings. He scored centuries in three consecutive matches, only the eighth Englishman at the time to have achieved this feat (four more have achieved it subsequently).
At this time Broad made his One Day International debut in 1986, against Australia
in Perth, Western Australia
where he scored 76 and England won by 37 runs.
In his only tour of Pakistan in 1987. Broad was severely reprimanded by the tour manager after refusing to walk when given out caught behind in the second innings of the Lahore Test match. Broad had stood his ground and almost a minute elapsed before Gooch persuaded him to go. The game was marred by numerous allegations of unfair dismissals by the umpires. Mike Gatting
, the England captain, let his views on these decisions be known, both on the pitch and in the press conference after the day's play.
He was dropped ostensibly for a lack of form, but it was also widely viewed that the England management did not agree with his temperament - he famously knocked his stumps
out of the ground after being bowled in the 1988 Sydney Bicentennial Test
. He was fined the maximum permitted (£500) by the tour manager. Broad last played for England in the second Test against Australia in 1989, having played in 25 Test matches with a high score of 162 and an average of 39.54. Unusually, he made all of his centuries outside England - four in Australia, one in New Zealand and one in Pakistan.
Broad was a member of the unofficial and controversial 1990 rebel tour to South Africa
, acting as match referee for Test matches and One Day Internationals, including the first match of the World Cricket Tsunami Appeal
and serving as match referee in the World Cup Super Eights game between the West Indies and Australia.
Broad was the match referee for the Second Test of the Sri Lanka in Pakistan series, and was in a convoy of vehicles that was attacked by terrorists in the 2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team
. During the attack he allegedly risked his life to protect an injured umpire. He and umpire Simon Taufel
subsequently criticised the level of protection provided to officials and players, saying in a press conference, "We were promised high levels of security and in our hour of need that security vanished".
Knowle, Bristol
Knowle is a district and council ward in the south of Bristol. It is bordered by Filwood Park to the west, Brislington to the east, Whitchurch and Hengrove to the south and Totterdown to the north....
, England
England
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) is a former England Test cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er and current Test official. An opening batsman, Broad had a 25-match long international Test career during which he hit six centuries, together with 34 One Day International matches with a respectable over 40 average. He is known largely for his feats during the 1986/87 Ashes series where he hit three centuries in consecutive Tests, and for his fiery demeanour at the crease. He went on to become a Test official, while his son, bowler Stuart
Stuart Broad
Stuart Christopher John Broad is a cricketer who plays Test and One Day International cricket for England and is currently the captain of their Twenty20 team...
, represents the same teams as his father, England and Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club
Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Nottinghamshire, and the current county champions. Its limited overs team is called the Nottinghamshire Outlaws...
. Cricket correspondent, Colin Bateman, noted, "Chris Broad pressed the self-destruct button on a career that promised so much. His lack of self-control at the crease brought a sad end to his reign as England opener at the age of 30, when he should have been enjoying his prime years".
Early life and domestic career
Born in Knowle, BristolKnowle, Bristol
Knowle is a district and council ward in the south of Bristol. It is bordered by Filwood Park to the west, Brislington to the east, Whitchurch and Hengrove to the south and Totterdown to the north....
to parents Ken and Nancy, Broad suffered from osteomyelitis
Osteomyelitis
Osteomyelitis simply means an infection of the bone or bone marrow...
at the age of 15 and this delayed his development as a cricketer. His first-class debut came for Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire County Cricket Club
Gloucestershire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Gloucestershire. Its limited overs team is called the Gloucestershire Gladiators....
in 1979 and he secured a permanent place in the team the following summer. As well as Nottinghamshire, he also played for Orange Free State
Orange Free State cricket team
The Free State cricket team is the first-class cricket team representing the province of Free State in South Africa....
. Returning to Gloucestershire in 1993, Broad retired at the end of the 1994 season with a hip injury.
International record
Broad was a fiery left-handed opening batsman, who made his TestTest cricket
Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
debut for England
English cricket team
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in 1984, in the second Test match against the West Indies
West Indian cricket team
The West Indian cricket team, also known colloquially as the West Indies or the Windies, is a multi-national cricket team representing a sporting confederation of 15 mainly English-speaking Caribbean countries, British dependencies and non-British dependencies.From the mid 1970s to the early 1990s,...
at Lord's
Lord's Cricket Ground
Lord's Cricket Ground is a cricket venue in St John's Wood, London. Named after its founder, Thomas Lord, it is owned by Marylebone Cricket Club and is the home of Middlesex County Cricket Club, the England and Wales Cricket Board , the European Cricket Council and, until August 2005, the...
. Opening the batting with Graeme Fowler
Graeme Fowler
Graeme "Foxy" Fowler is a former English professional cricketer, who played for Lancashire, England, and later for Durham...
, Broad scored 55 in an opening partnership of 101 runs. Fowler went on to score 106 runs, however England were bowled out for 286. The West Indies reached 245 in response. England's second innings began poorly, Broad being dismissed for a duck
Duck (cricket)
In the sport of cricket, a duck refers to a batsman's dismissal for a score of zero.-Origin of the term:The term is a shortening of the term "duck's egg", the latter being used long before Test cricket began...
having faced only nine balls, and the West Indies reached the 342 run target set for them thanks to 214* from Gordon Greenidge
Gordon Greenidge
Cuthbert Gordon Greenidge MBE is a former member of the West Indies cricket team.Greenidge was an opening batsman for the West Indies. He began his Test career against India at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore in 1974 and continued playing internationally until 1991. He was half of the West...
. Broad therefore averaged 27.50 in his debut Test match.
Broad opened in the next Test match against the West Indies at Headingley, Yorkshire beginning on 12 July 1984, scoring 32 and two. He scored 42 and 21 in the next Test, and four and 39 in the final Test of the series, ending his first series with 195 runs at 24.37. Broad then played one Test match against Sri Lanka, scoring his highest score thus far, 86 in a drawn Test match. Broad did not play for England again until 14 November 1986 during the 1986 Ashes series. He began quietly with eight and 35*, however in the second Test at Perth
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
he scored 162 and 16. He then scored 116 and 15* at Adelaide
Adelaide
Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...
, 112 at Melbourne
Melbourne
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and six and 17 in Sydney. He ended this Ashes tour with 487 runs and three centuries from nine innings. He scored centuries in three consecutive matches, only the eighth Englishman at the time to have achieved this feat (four more have achieved it subsequently).
At this time Broad made his One Day International debut in 1986, against Australia
Australian cricket team
The Australian cricket team is the national cricket team of Australia. It is the joint oldest team in Test cricket, having played in the first Test match in 1877...
in Perth, Western Australia
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
where he scored 76 and England won by 37 runs.
In his only tour of Pakistan in 1987. Broad was severely reprimanded by the tour manager after refusing to walk when given out caught behind in the second innings of the Lahore Test match. Broad had stood his ground and almost a minute elapsed before Gooch persuaded him to go. The game was marred by numerous allegations of unfair dismissals by the umpires. Mike Gatting
Mike Gatting
Michael "Mike" William Gatting OBE is a former English cricketer, who played first-class cricket for Middlesex and for England from 1977 to 1995, captaining the national side in twenty-three Test matches between 1986 and 1988...
, the England captain, let his views on these decisions be known, both on the pitch and in the press conference after the day's play.
He was dropped ostensibly for a lack of form, but it was also widely viewed that the England management did not agree with his temperament - he famously knocked his stumps
Stump (cricket)
Stump is a term used in the sport of cricket where it has three different meanings:# part of the wicket# a manner of dismissing a batsman# the end of the day's play .-Part of the wicket:...
out of the ground after being bowled in the 1988 Sydney Bicentennial Test
Bicentennial Test
The Bicentennial Test was a single Test cricket match played between Australia and England at the Sydney Cricket Ground in celebration of the bicentenary of permanent white settlement in Australia. The match took place from 29 January to 2 February 1988 and was drawn...
. He was fined the maximum permitted (£500) by the tour manager. Broad last played for England in the second Test against Australia in 1989, having played in 25 Test matches with a high score of 162 and an average of 39.54. Unusually, he made all of his centuries outside England - four in Australia, one in New Zealand and one in Pakistan.
Broad was a member of the unofficial and controversial 1990 rebel tour to South Africa
Test official
In 2003, Broad became an ICC Test officialInternational Cricket Council
The International Cricket Council is the international governing body of cricket. It was founded as the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1909 by representatives from England, Australia and South Africa, renamed the International Cricket Conference in 1965, and took up its current name in 1989.The...
, acting as match referee for Test matches and One Day Internationals, including the first match of the World Cricket Tsunami Appeal
World Cricket Tsunami Appeal
The World Cricket Tsunami Appeal was an effort by the International Cricket Council to raise funds to support the humanitarian relief efforts following the Indian Ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004. It was scheduled to be held over two games but was reduced to one due to an over-crowded...
and serving as match referee in the World Cup Super Eights game between the West Indies and Australia.
Broad was the match referee for the Second Test of the Sri Lanka in Pakistan series, and was in a convoy of vehicles that was attacked by terrorists in the 2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team
2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team
The Sri Lankan cricket team attack occurred on March 3, 2009, when a bus carrying Sri Lankan cricketers, part of a larger convoy, was fired upon by 12 gunmen, near the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, Pakistan. The cricketers were on their way to play the third day of the second Test against the...
. During the attack he allegedly risked his life to protect an injured umpire. He and umpire Simon Taufel
Simon Taufel
Simon James Arthur Taufel, , is an Australian cricket umpire who is a member of the ICC Elite umpire panel...
subsequently criticised the level of protection provided to officials and players, saying in a press conference, "We were promised high levels of security and in our hour of need that security vanished".
Performance against each opponent
| Opponent | Matches | Innings | Runs | High Score | 100 | 50 | Average | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 8 | 14 | 2 | 708 | 162 | 4 | 0 | 59.00 |
| New Zealand | 3 | 4 | 0 | 204 | 114 | 1 | 1 | 51.00 |
| Pakistan | 7 | 13 | 0 | 397 | 116 | 1 | 2 | 30.53 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 1 | 0 | 86 | 86 | 0 | 1 | 86.00 |
| West Indies | 6 | 12 | 0 | 266 | 55 | 0 | 2 | 22.16 |
| TOTAL | 25 | 44 | 2 | 1661 | 162 | 6 | 6 | 39.54 |