After helping England to a comfortable victory in the first test of the summer against the West Indies, Stuart Broad has set his sights on defeating Australia to retain The Ashes later this year.
Stuart Broad was handed the new ball against the West Indies and managed to bowl at over 90mph regularly. With this extra yard of pace behind him, he believes that he can form a formidable opening partnership with James Anderson this summer.
Speaking about his progress as an international bowler, Stuart Broad said that he was keen to make the new ball spot alongside James Anderson ‘his own’ in the coming weeks.
As for the partnership with James Anderson, the 22-year-old says that they have played a ‘lot of cricket together now’ and this has led to them talking ‘about deliveries’ all of the time.
An example of such a situation occurred when Chris Gayle was driving Stuart Broad for four regularly at Lords. James Anderson then advised him to change his line of attack and this led to the dismissal of the West Indian captain.
As the Nottinghamshire all-rounder says, ‘communication is key in test cricket’ and it seems that England’s current new ball partnership understand this all too well.
Stuart Broad will obviously be keen to keep this going in the second test against the Windies which gets underway on Thursday at the Riverside. This will then stand England in good stead for when the Ashes come around in July and will undoubtedly make Ashes cricket betting very interesting indeed.
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