Aussies reel under Stuart’s Broadside
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Stuart Broad played the villain’s role to perfection at the Gabba in Brisbane, snaring five wickets to have Australia reeling at 273-8 at stumps on the first day of the Ashes series.
The England paceman took the first four wickets as Australia’s batting collapsed yet again in an Ashes test, the hosts slumping to 83-4 yesterday before Brad Haddin (78 not out) and Mitchell Johnson (64) combined in a 114-run salvage operation.
Broad returned with the new ball late in the evening to break up the seventh-wicket partnership and finished the day with 5-65 — his 11th five-wicket haul in a test and his fifth this year. Jimmy Anderson dismissed debutante George Bailey and Peter Siddle to return 2-61.
Portrayed as the pantomime villain by the domestic tabloids after some run-ins with Australia in the last series, Broad got a raucous boo from the Gabba crowd, got hit for four by David Warner on his first ball of the test, and then silenced the noise by skittling the top order.
He dismissed Chris Rogers to start his second over in the morning, then returned in a destructive spell around the lunch interval to remove Shane Watson (22), Michael Clarke (1) and Warner (49) as Australia slumped from 71-1 to 83-4 after winning the toss and batting.
Broad said he’d braced himself for a barrage of abuse from the crowd, and made the most of the occasion. “After losing the toss on what looked like a fantastic batting wicket and to get eight wickets in that day ... puts us in a great position. It was a really enjoyable day, there was a bit of banter with the crowd, a good day’s cricket and we’ve certainly had the best of it.”
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