‘Blimey this chap can bowl’: Chris Broad shares the moment he realised his son Stuart Broad is special | Cricket News
Chris Broad has revealed that he never thought that his son Stuart Broad would ever made it to the first-class level, forget playing international cricket.
“Thank you to Leicestershire for seeing the ability of him as a bowler because I didn’t see that, and I was looking at his batting and I thought, well, I don’t really think he’s going to make it in first-class cricket as a batsman,” Chris Broad told BBC TMS.
“But they saw him as a bowler, gave him the opportunity.”
Stuart definitely proved his father wrong and ended up taking more than 800 international wickets.
So what changed Chris Broad’s percetpion about his son?
“I went to watch a T20 game between Leicestershire and Notts at Grace Road and Stephen Fleming was the opening batter and captain for Notts at the same time.
“Stuart bowled two or three overs at Stephen Fleming and he couldn’t get the ball off the square in a T20 game.
“And I thought then blimey, this chap can bowl.”
The 37-year-old Broad made the shock announcement Saturday at stumps on the third day of the fifth and final test against Australia at the Oval.
Broad has taken 602 wickets in 167 tests — including 8-15 against Australia in 2015 — making him the second most successful paceman in test hory behind teammate James Anderson, and fifth overall.
