England’s Stuart Broad turned simply the fifth bowler to take 600 Test wickets when he dismissed Australia’s Travis Head within the fourth Ashes Test at Old Trafford on Wednesday. By having Head caught within the deep for 48, the 37-year-old paceman joined Sri Lanka’s Muttiah Muralitharan (800), Australia’s Shane Warne (708), England’s James Anderson (688) and India’s Anil Kumble (619) in an unique membership. Broad and Anderson, the opposite energetic bowler on this group, are the one quicks to have taken 600 Test wickets. Broad began this match, his 166th Test, on 598 wickets.

But after England captain Ben Stokes received the toss and elected to discipline on Wednesday, Broad struck an early blow when he had Usman Khawaja lbw for 3 to depart Australia 15-1.

He needed to wait till his eleventh over for the landmark wicket, with left-hander Head hooking a bouncer and Joe Root holding a low catch as he got here in off the boundary at wonderful leg.

Head’s exit left Australia on 189-5 as England, 2-1 down with two Tests to play, chase the win they should keep their hopes of regaining the Ashes.

Broad’s double strike on Wednesday additionally noticed him overtake Ian Botham as England’s main Test bowler towards Australia with 150 wickets.

Broad, the son of former England batsman Chris Broad, made his Test debut towards Sri Lanka at Colombo in 2007 underneath the captaincy of Michael Vaughan.

The then Leicestershire seamer — Broad now performs for Nottinghamshire — had solely began bowling comparatively late in a college profession as a promising batsman.

But at worldwide degree he has grow to be famend for his match-winning spells, 20 occasions taking 5 or extra wickets in an innings.

Three occasions he has taken no less than 10 wickets in a Test, together with his means to generate late seam motion typically proving an excessive amount of for the world’s main batsmen.

The most celebrated return of Broad’s profession was his excellent 8-15 at Trent Bridge throughout England’s 2015 Ashes triumph in a match that Anderson missed due to harm.

Broad additionally scored an outstanding 169 towards Pakistan at Lord’s in 2010 earlier than his batting regressed after he had his nostril damaged by a bouncer from India’s Varun Aaron 4 years later.

Broad, whose wickets have come at a cheap common of simply over 27 apiece, can also be the one England bowler to have taken two Test hat-tricks.

The first got here towards India in 2011 throughout a haul of 6-46, with the second towards Sri Lanka in 2014.

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