“I can’t believe it,” Stuart Broad says on a cold and rainy evening in London as, having stressed his contentment in retirement, he turns to the heat and disappointment in India. England’s defence of their 50-over World Cup has slumped from embarrassment to incomprehension. England have lost six out of seven matches and are bottom of the tournament table.
In the many highs of his career, Broad has had his share of lows with England. As he stresses in his new autobiography, his own World Cup nadir came in 2007 when, aged 21, he was hit for six sixes in an over by India’s Yuvraj Singh. “It was really important and it sped up my learning,” Broad says. “Lots of people would have crumbled then but I went on and took [604] Test wickets. So it really hardened me.”
