After enjoying a brilliant Ashes series where he finished with 23 wickets at an average of 26.65, Stuart Broad is reflecting upon the last twelve months of his journey. After not being picked for England’s Test tour of the West Indies, Broad came back strongly in the Ashes.

“I’ve been very pleased with how it has gone this summer. I’ve gone from being talked about as a diminishing cricketer being eased out to a reinvented cricketer with more to offer,” Broad said. “At 33 years old that is a good place to be. All the hard work has been worth it. Fate allowed me to have the time during the winter to work on things.”

“In Sri Lanka I didn’t play too much and I was able to work on a new run up and stuff like my attacking intent which has paid dividends. I’ve not been as attacking in my areas, and making batsmen play as much as I have for many years,” he added.

Broad managed the pace attack very beautifully in the absence of James Anderson in the Ashes, who bowled all of four overs before a calf injury ruled him out of the series once again.

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“I had an added responsibility to try and get their big players out and that’s why I did a lot of planning on David Warner and how I might get him out before the series started. I had to go fuller at him, I had to try and hit his stumps and I had to try and forget about his outside edge,” he shared.

“I never dreamt that I would have the success against him that I’ve had. He has outdone me in many a series, but this time it went my way and I think it perhaps shows that sometimes planning does work,” he told.

However, Stuart Broad has 467 wickets to his name, and with the kind of form he has been showing, there is no doubt that he will soon surpass his teammate Anderson.