He was just a scrawny kid, but you knew he was something special

DARREN STEVENS

It was always going to finish with Stuart Broad. Those cricketing gods… There I was thinking I’d had a decent farewell at Kent last year, winning a trophy in my last game for the club. And then Broady writes a script like that at The Oval last week. He hit his last ball in cricket for six – and it was off his chest against the bouncer that he has struggled with since he was hit in the latter part of his career, bowled by one of the quickest bowlers in the world in Mitchell Starc.
He took a wicket with the last ball he bowled, a Broad classic from around the wicket to the le...

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