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. He has also taken 604 Wickets in Test Cricket and he has become just the second fast bowler in test cricket history to do so. He has also recently retired from Test Cricket.

Stuart Broad has played 167 Test Matches. He has taken 604 Wickets in Test Cricket. He has taken 20 Five Wicket Hauls in Test Cricket. He has also taken 178 Wickets in ODIs and 65 Wickets in T20Is.

Stuart Broad Bowling Stats:

Let’s look at Top 5 Stuart Broad Best bowling performances.

8/15 vs Australia (2015): Stuart Broad Best Bowling Figures in Test

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. He took the Wickets of David Warner, Steven Smith, Shaun Marsh, Michael Clarke and others. He took all these Wickets in 9.3 overs.

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. Stuart Broad bowled 11 overs in this innings and he took the Wickets of Kane Williamson, Ross Taylor, Brendon McCullum, Tum Southee among others. England won the match by 170 runs.

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. Stuart Broad bowled 24.5 overs at an economy Rate of 2.90. He dismissed Marlon Samuels, Denesh Ramdin, Darren Sammy among others In this innings. England won this match by 5 Wickets.

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. Stuart Broad got the Wickets of Dean Elgar, Hashim Amla, AB De Villiers, Faf Du Plessis, Temba Bavuma among others. He bowled 12.1 overs in this innings.

5/23 vs South Africa (2008): Stuart Broad Best Bowling Figures in ODI

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. Stuart Broad took the Wickets of Graeme Smith, Herschelle Gibbs, Jacques Kallis, JP Duminy among others. He gave away 2.3 runs per over.