Stuart Broad might have reacted angrily to being left out of the first Test of the last Ashes series but he has promised to be the model of equanimity if he is forced to relive the experience at Edgbaston next week, saying: “It’s not about me, it’s about the collective.”
Broad is competing with Jimmy Anderson, Ollie Robinson, Mark Wood, Chris Woakes, Matt Potts and Josh Tongue for no more than four places in the team to start the series in Birmingham, but he says none of them will react badly to being omitted.