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Brian Christopher Broad

 
 
 

Brian Christopher Broad was born on the 29th September 1957 in Knowle, Bristol. He was educated at Colston’s Collegiate.

Chris Board joined Clifton in 1980. He had previously played for Bristol United.

Left article from the Evening Post dated November 23rd 1980. Above Chris Board 2005

In 1983 Brian Christopher Broad left Clifton RFC. As well as playing rugby he played cricket for Gloucestershire. A tall left-handed opener who batted with his bottom inelegantly stuck out towards square-leg. As soon as he left Gloucestershire and joined Nottinghamshire, complaining that their lack of ambitiousness had held him back, he was rewarded by being selected for England. This paid off spectacularly against the weak Australian team of 1986-87 when Broad equalled Jack Hobbs and Wally Hammond by scoring centuries in three successive Tests of an Ashes series. He scored a further 139 in the dreary Sydney bicentenary Test a year later but smashed the stumps down after being bowled. And when he was seen mouthing off after being given lbw at Lord's, he was dropped - ostensibly for loss of form, but the England management was getting increasingly tough-minded after the free-for-all of the Ian Botham era, and petulance was out of fashion: Broad only ever played two more Tests. Later, he became more serene but less effective, returning in peace to Gloucestershire and then joining the BBC TV commentary team before it was disbanded.

TESTS (1984 - 1989) Brian Christopher Broad

 

M

I

NO

Runs

HS

Ave

100

50

Ct

St

Batting & Fielding

25

44

2

1661

162

39.54

6

6

10

0

 

Balls

M

R

W

Ave

BBI

5

10

SR

Econ

Bowling

1

0

4

0

-

-

0

0

-

4.00

 

ONE-DAY INTERNATIONALS (1986 - 1988) Brian Christopher Broad

 

M

I

NO

Runs

HS

Ave

100

50

Ct

St

Batting & Fielding

34

34

0

1361

106

40.02

1

11

10

0

 

Balls

M

R

W

Ave

BBI

5

10

SR

Econ

Bowling

1

0

6

0

-

-

0

0

-

6.00

 

FIRST-CLASS (1979 - 1994) Brian Christopher Broad

 

M

I

NO

Runs

HS

Ave

100

50

Ct

St

Batting & Fielding

340

613

38

21892

227*

38.07

50

105

189

0

 

Balls

M

R

W

Ave

BBI

5

10

SR

Econ

Bowling

271.5

60

1037

16

64.81

2-14

0

0

101.9

3.81

 

LIMITED OVERS (1979 - 1994) Brian Christopher Broad

 

M

I

NO

Runs

HS

Ave

100

50

Ct

St

Batting & Fielding

319

314

15

10396

122

34.76

11

68

82

0

 

Balls

M

R

W

Ave

BBI

5

10

SR

Econ

Bowling

171.1

6

920

25

36.80

3-46

0

0

41.0

5.37

His first-class cricket 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. He retired at the end of the 1994 season with a hip injury.

In 2003 he became an ICC Test Official, 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 the convoy attacked by terrorists in the 2009 attack on Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore, Pakistan. During the attack he risked his life to protect an injured umpire.