Stuart Broad insists he’s a changed man and will not be fuelled by rage or by trying to prove a point if he is left out of the side for the first Ashes Test.
Whether he sticks to his zen state in just over a week’s time if he is indeed left out remains to be seen, but it would make a huge change from the way he has reacted recently.
Broad has been axed from the team four times in the last three years, from Barbados to Brisbane, and each time he has been left fuming at the decision before returning with fire in his belly.