It was probably not how Stuart Broad envisaged reaching the landmark, and not merely because David Warner was not the man to fall. But moments after tea here at Old Trafford, a ball banged short into the deck was hooked by Travis Head to the man in the deep and Broad became the fifth - and who knows, perhaps the last - man to reach 600 wickets in Tests.
“There was a clip that came up in the changing room of my 100th, 200th – they were caught long-off, caught long-on, caught midwicket - so they’re not the old classical dismissals,” Broad laughed afterwards. “The good thing is it was caught by our leading catcher ever in Joe Root so I can tell my grandkids it was caught first slip.”
