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Glamorgan had to survive Tom Curran’s 51 off 27 balls to secure victory which strengthened their position at the top of the South Group

ECB Reporters Network04-Aug-2017Tom Curran almost stole victory for Surrey•Getty Images

Aneurin Donald’s brilliant 76 off 40 balls shone out under the Kia Oval floodlights as Glamorgan strengthened their position at the top of the NatWest T20 Blast’s South Group table by squeezing past Surrey by six runs in front of a crowd of 21,256.But Tom Curran almost stole the match for Surrey at the death, his remarkable 51 not out from 27 balls making a mockery of 48 runs being required from the last three overs to overhaul Glamorgan’s 181 for 6. In the end, having hit the second ball of Michael Hogan’s final over for six to bring the equation down to nine from four balls, Curran was foxed by two slower balls from the veteran Australian seamer which he swung at and missed.A scampered two from the penultimate ball left Curran, who hit three sixes and three fours, needing seven from the last ball. He hit it into the offside, opted not to run but still walked off to an ovation for a courageous attempt to achieve the seemingly impossible with Surrey finishing on 175 for 7.Donald, still only 20, hit two sixes and 11 fours in his T20-best as he and the prolific Colin Ingram, who scored 42 from 31 balls with three sixes, swept Glamorgan towards their eventual total by adding 95 in just 8.3 overs for the second wicket after they had opted to bat first.It was Glamorgan’s fifth win of the group stage and took them to 14 points while Surrey, who have now lost four of their ten games, remain on 10 points.Glamorgan captain Jacques Rudolph praised Donald’s batting plus Michael Hogan’s nerve in the thrilling final over.”Tom Curran did incredibly well to get them so close, and there is so much noise out there in front of a crowd of that size that it’s difficult to communicate,” he said. “But Michael kept his cool after the second ball six and showed his experience to switch to around the wicket and bowl two vital dot balls. It was a brave decision.”Aneurin batted brilliantly up front and it was a pretty solid batting performance although we might have got 20 runs more after the start we got.”Surrey’s chase did not start well, with Jason Roy nicking the first ball of the innings, from Lukas Carey, to the keeper but Mark Stoneman joined Aaron Finch in a stand of 64 in six overs before carving to deep midwicket in Graham Wagg’s first over to go for a useful 21-ball 34.Finch, who had got off the mark by swinging Michael Hogan for six from his first ball, and who also hit Marchant de Lange for six, reached 33 from 22 balls before mishitting Ingram’s occasional legspin straight to long on in the eighth over, and Surrey’s decline continued as Moises Henriques and Sam Curran were both held in the deep.Aneurin Donald helped keep Glamorgan top of South Group•Getty Images

From 84 for 3 after ten overs, Surrey slid to 101 for 6 as Rikki Clarke could only score 6 on his Surrey return before becoming one of de Lange’s three victims.Ollie Pope, caught at midwicket off de Lange, scored a sparkling 26 and Surrey’s hopes rose further when Tom Curran swung Hogan for six in an 18th over costing 16 runs and also containing fours by both Curran and Stuart Meaker.That left 32 needed from the last two overs, and Curran immediately swatted Graham Wagg’s left arm seam over wide midwicket for six. Riding his luck, with an inside-edged four to fine leg, Curran ensured that 15 came from the over – setting up the superb finish.When Glamorgan batted, Donald was quickly into his stride, pulling for six the fourth ball of the innings from Jade Dernbach – and the second ball he faced – before taking three fours from Sam Curran’s opening over with a lovely straight drive, a paddle-pull to wide long leg and then a crashing drive through extra cover.Another flipped four, off Dernbach, followed before the wicket of Jacques Rudolph slowed Glamorgan for a while. From 30 for no wicket after three overs, they could only score 46 for 1 from the initial six-over Powerplay after Roy leapt to take a brilliant catch at backward point to send back Rudolph for 4.The bowler was Clarke, who has rejoined his first county Surrey, for whom he played from 2002 to 2007. Initially, the move is on loan from Warwickshire ahead of a permanent move from next season, with Dom Sibley already going the other way in a reciprocal deal, and 35-year-old allrounder Clarke struck with his fifth ball in the fourth over. His first two overs cost only eight runs and he finished with 1 for 23.Ingram, however, still managed to hit his first ball, from Clarke, for four and he was soon pulling Tom Curran for four and launching Gareth Batty’s offspin for six in the eighth over. Another six arrived when Ingram pulled the younger Curran out of the ground beyond the Peter May Stand as the Welsh county reached the halfway mark at 87 for 1.Batty was then plundered for 22 in an over by Donald, with three leg-side fours and a smeared six being followed by a delicate lap for four by the youngster from the last ball of the 11th over.A four and straight six by Ingram off Henriques’s medium pace quickly followed but the rollicking second wicket stand ended in the 13th over when Donald skied paceman Meaker to midwicket.Ingram went six balls later, cutting Henriques to point, and three more wickets fell in the final overs as Glamorgan’s middle-order sought to add as many as they could. David Miller’s 24 from 19 balls included a last over six off a Tom Curran full toss the ball before he fell attempting to clear long-on, while Wagg also swung Clarke for six.

The list of 57 candidates for the post of India coach has been cut to 21, the BCCI announced on Wednesday

ESPNcricinfo staff15-Jun-2016The list of 57 candidates for the post of India coach has been cut to 21, the BCCI announced on Wednesday. The next step in the process of selecting the coach will be a review of the remaining candidates by the BCCI’s cricket advisory committee, comprising former players Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and VVS Laxman. Sanjay Jagdale, who had served as BCCI secretary in the past, will act as chief co-ordinator of the committee for the duration of this process.The trimming down from 57 applicants to 21 was carried out by BCCI secretary Ajay Shirke’s office. However, if the cricket advisory committee wishes, it will be furnished with the entire list of 57 as well, the BCCI said. The committee is expected to submit its choice to Shirke by June 22.Shirke did not divulge any of the 21 names, pointing out that that would affect the committee’s work. The BCCI has not revealed any of the 57 names, but some candidates confirmed that they had applied. The prominent ones are Ravi Shastri (former India team director), Anil Kumble (former India captain), Sandeep Patil (current chairman of selectors) and Stuart Law (ex-Bangladesh coach).Among the key qualifications asked of the applicants by the BCCI was that they should have coached at the international or first-class level. It was also mentioned that “it is preferred that the candidate should be qualified through a certification/assessment program conducted by any of the Full Member countries, and currently possess such a valid certification.”*Kumble, despite his vast experience as a player and administrator, does not meet both criteria. Shirke did not want to comment on this, but said it was for the advisory committee to work out the eligibility of the shortlisted candidates. “They [panel] have the liberty to decide,” Shirke said.It is understood that a final shortlist of candidates will be asked to appear for interviews before the BCCI finalises the coach.*15.30GMT, June 15: The wording of the required qualification quoted here has been changed to reflect the BCCI’s list of criteria.

Craig Kieswetter has described the England team he played in as divided by cliques and changed by success

ESPNcricinfo staff22-Jun-20154:52

Cliques within the England dressing room?

Craig Kieswetter has described the England team he played in as divided by cliques and changed by success. In an exclusive interview with ESPNcricinfo, Kieswetter also explained his decision to retire following an eye injury and his frustration with his own England career.But it is his views on the England dressing room that will gain most attention. While Kieswetter stopped short of repeating Kevin Pietersen’s claims of bullying in the England environment, he does not paint a flattering picture.Though he says he came into a united dressing room in early 2010, he believes that winning the World T20 and then the Ashes in Australia “changed people”.”It wasn’t just us competing against the opposition,” Kieswetter said. “There was a sense that some of us were competing against one another. By the time we were No. 1 in the world, it was a very different dressing room. Success changed people. Cliques developed. There were jokes made in the dressing room if you had a South African background. When we warmed up in training, we were split into sides: South Africans v English.”There was lots of talk about it in the media and here we were making it worse. It created an unnecessary divide. A sense of them and us.”It grew worse. The Test players were together so much that, when the limited-overs players turned up, it felt like you were on the outside. The Test guys hung out with each other; the limited-overs guys hung out. The spirit I experienced in those first few weeks was never there again.”Craig Kieswetter’s England career peaked at the World T20•Getty Images

Those “first few weeks” saw Kieswetter become the second youngest England player, after David Gower, to make an ODI century and win the Man-of-the-Match award in the 2010 World T20 final. But while he started out playing with rare freedom, he feels that prolonged exposure to the England environment left him feeling “caged” as a batsman.”Of all the England teams I played in over five years, that was the one that had the best spirit,” he said. “To be honest, I don’t remember it that clearly: we played golf, we went to the beach and we drank rum. Training tended to be optional. KP was at his best. So were Broad and Swann. But we were a proper team and everyone got on brilliantly.”I started out playing with freedom; I ended up caged. I guess if I was in the current set-up I would thrive, but I had a good record as an opener and they asked me to bat at No. 6. It’s tough, but I’m disappointed with the way I responded to it.”Kieswetter also explained his decision to retire from cricket following a blow to the eye sustained while batting against David Willey. “I know I can’t play at the level I want to,” Kieswetter explains. “I liked being a swashbuckling player. And I felt I had the talent to play for England. I don’t feel that way any more. I’m not the same player. I’m not as good as I want to be and I never can be.”I can still play. I can still be okay. But when I came back at the end of last season, there was a lot of bravado and adrenalin involved. In the end I just thought, there are too many mediocre players in county cricket – and good luck to them – but I don’t want to be another one.”Read the full interview here

The player auction ahead of the Indian Premier League’s sixth season will be held on February 3, it was announced on Friday

Amol Karhadkar21-Dec-2012The player auction ahead of the Indian Premier League’s sixth season will be held on February 3, it was announced on Friday. The decision was conveyed to all nine franchise representatives during a workshop in Jodhpur. Later in the day, IPL chief executive Sundar Raman tweeted the news.Though the venue for the auction is yet to be finalised, the representatives were told it would be held “in a metro”. The auction, which is likely to see 37 players going under the hammer, was earlier expected to be held on January 12. However, the IPL authorities decided not to let it clash with India’s one-day series against England (from January 11-27).Meanwhile, besides briefing the representatives about the auction date and schedule, the workshop had the IPL organisers making various presentations related to player regulations, sponsors’ obligations, etc. It was followed by one-on-ones with each of the nine team owners.”It was a routine exercise, similar to what has happened during the earlier workshops,” a franchise official said, preferring anonymity. “The workshop has kind of symbolised that the new season has indeed begun. It’s time for everyone to start preparing.”

The finals of the East Africa Premier League and East African Cup have been re-scheduled following last month’s postponement

ESPNcricinfo staff11-Nov-2011The finals of the East Africa Premier League and East African Cup have been re-scheduled following last month’s postponement caused by a waterlogged outfield at Nairobi Gymkhana Club.Rwenzori Warriors will take on the Nile Knights in the final of the EAPL on Saturday December 3, while the Knights are also scheduled to tackle Kongonis in the EAC final a day later. Both games will take place at Nairobi Gymkhana Club.Cricket Kenya chief executive Tom Sears said: “We are delighted to be able to re-schedule the matches and bring an exciting climax to the inaugural year of the East African competitions. The events have generated enormous interest throughout the region, the whole of Africa and beyond and we are already working on plans for next year.”The finals will be a fitting way to end the year and we look forward to two days of highly competitive cricket and crowning the first champions of the East African Cup and East Africa Premier League.”

Graeme Smith may miss the first Test against India in mid-December if the fracture to the little finger of his left hand, sustained during the recently completed series against Pakistan, requires surgery

Firdose Moonda24-Nov-2010There is a possibility that Graeme Smith may miss the first Test against India in mid-December if the fracture to the little finger of his left hand, sustained during the recently completed series against Pakistan, requires surgery. While the injury means Smith will not be able to play for at least three weeks, he could be out for even longer if the problem needs to be operated upon.”Only 10% of hand fractures require surgery,” Mike Solomon, the Cape Town based orthopaedic surgeon who will see Smith on Friday, told ESPNcricinfo. Smith will only have to go under the knife if there is a gap between the bones in his finger; what is known as a displaced fracture. Cricket South Africa management diagnosed the fracture as non-displaced, which means that the recovery period should be shorter.”Usually hand fractures heal in three to four weeks but they can take up to six weeks. I have no details about Graeme’s injury so I can’t say which category he falls into,” Solomon said.
Smith’s latest injury was caused when he was struck on the hand by a rising delivery from Shoaib Ahktar in the first one-day international of the series against Pakistan. It kept him out of the second and third match, but he returned to play in the last two ODIs and the two Tests, which caused the injury to flare up. “It was aggravated by the continuous wear and tear involved with fielding and batting”, Mohammed Moosajee, team manager said.Smith has now had five separate hand injuries in the past two-and-a-half years, which have often kept him out of limited-overs engagements but have yet to affect his participation in Tests. The fracture prior to his most recent injury was sustained while taking a catch during the IPL in April. The worrying thing about the latest injury is that, similar to the broken hand Smith suffered twice at the hands of Mitchell Johnson in the 2008/9 season, it was sustained while batting. Once again, questions will be raised about whether it’s Smith’s technique that makes him vulnerable to being hit or if he is just unlucky.”He has a very dominant bottom hand which could leave more of the hand exposed,” said Richard Pybus, the former Pakistan coach who is currently in charge of the Cape Cobras. “Usually batsmen grip the bat with their thumb, forefinger and middle finger but it’s possible he could expose his ring and little finger more than others because of his technique. I haven’t worked that much with him so I am not certain of the theory.”Jimmy Cook, who coached Smith when he was a schoolboy at the King Edward High School in Johannesburg, said that he tried to decrease Smith’s reliance on his bottom hand many times. “We tried to change it and moved it a lot but he couldn’t adjust too much,” Cook said.Smith’s technique has served him well over the years, helping him accumulate over 7,000 Test runs and allowing him to be “prolific on the leg side” according to Cook. “Eventually, I thought that if using the bottom hand like that is going to benefit him, he should leave it like that. He’s taken a few hits on the hand now, so I don’t think he is scared.”Smith is not the only South African with arm trouble. Also among the walking wounded is Hashim Amla. Amla was hit on the forearm by a Misbah-ul-Haq pull shot when he was fielding at short leg during the second session on Wednesday. He left the field for treatment and did not return for the remainder of the game, but was not taken to hospital for any scans. “He is under the physiotherapists’ watch and we are waiting to see how he responds to icing, compression and elevation. We will have a clearer picture a bit later,” said Moosajee.The first Test against India gets underway on the 16th of December at Centurion.

The term was appropriate after his side was bundled out for 228 and 187 on Saturday to tumble to an innings-and-65-run defeat

Peter English at the Gabba28-Nov-2009Chris Gayle doesn’t waste energy or words and was quick to call West Indies’ three-day defeat at the Gabba a “disaster”. The term was appropriate after his side was bundled out for 228 and 187 on Saturday to tumble to an innings-and-65-run embarrassment that gave Australia a 1-0 lead in the three-Test series.”It’s a must-turnaround situation that we’re in,” Gayle said. “Two matches to go, so hopefully we can rebound from this disaster, this loss in three days. We have to look for positives.”Adrian Barath’s hundred stood miles ahead, Travis Dowlin’s first-innings 62 was useful and Denesh Ramdin had a strong game with bat and gloves, but there was little else to encourage the tourists. Fifteen wickets fell on the third day as the game was handed over due to Australia’s varied attack and some poor shot selection.”I’m very disappointed at the batting in both innings, they didn’t come off,” Gayle said. “Apart from Adrian and his second-innings century, a brilliant innings, he batted well and showed a lot of character.”Despite the struggles of this game and the bitter players’ strike, Gayle has no plans to seek an easy way out of his captaincy. He showed his belief in the team and Test cricket by flying back from Jamaica, where he visited his sick mother, in time for the match, but after the contest finished it was hard to tell whether he was still suffering from jet-lag or in despair at the defeat.”The captain don’t want to lose,” he said. “You have to be strong in this situation, have to be a strong individual. Try and uplift the players and encourage them and lift your game as well. It’s a tough situation and I’ve been around a long time as well to handle this situation. I’m not thinking down that path [of stepping down] at this point of time.”Ricky Ponting will hold his assessment of West Indies until after Adelaide following another win on a ground where Australia haven’t lost since 1988-89. “There is no team that comes here and performs well, simple as that,” he said. “It’s 21 years since we’ve lost a game here. And they’re not at full strength.”The pitch was excellent for the run-makers if they could cope with the bounce, but the visitors struggled, feeding the slips with catches as well as making bad mistakes, such as Dwayne Bravo’s hooking of Michael Hussey to the only man in the deep. “We have ourselves to blame,” Gayle said, “so go back to the nets and rebuild for the second Test.” That game starts on Friday and the extra time may help Jerome Taylor to recover from a back strain that limited him to nine overs on the first day.Taylor has had a scan and Gayle said they would wait on him and Ramnaresh Sarwan, who suffered a back injury at training the day before the game. “Keep our fingers crossed, hopefully [Sarwan] will be ready for the second Test,” he said. “We’ll have to wait and see.”

Late wickets for Jackson Bird left South Australia facing the prospect of their first defeat of the season

AAP15-Nov-2024Kurtis Patterson has taken the next step in his revival as a first-class cricketer, hitting another half-century as New South Wales rammed home their advantage over South Australia.Dropped from NSW’s Sheffield Shield side for most of last summer and fearing his career could be over, Patterson made it three straight half-centuries for the Blues on Friday. With NSW well on top, Patterson struck 71 to help NSW to 394 late on day two and a first-innings lead of 284 at Karen Rolton Oval.Related

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South Australia went to stumps at 53 for 3, still needing 231 more runs to make NSW bat again. Paceman Jackson Bird had taken 2 for 15 to follow his first innings heroics of 7 for 46.Patterson took his time through the majority of his innings, crunching two boundaries through the covers and another through mid on. The two-time Test representative eventually lost his leg stump trying to glance Brendan Doggett, but Patterson has now clearly given himself a second life as a first-class cricketer.He has made scores of 91, 66 and 71 since his return earlier this month, after only being recalled when NSW found themselves short on batters through Australia A duties.Patterson was one of four NSW players to pass 50 against the previously-undefeated South Australians. After Nic Maddinson hit 69 on the opening evening, Oliver Davies blasted his way to 56 on day two by regularly taking on spinner Lloyd Pope down the ground.Wearing a floppy hat, Davies used his feet to hit Pope for four through cover, down the ground for a big six and then over cover for four again in quick succession.Matthew Gilkes also hit 55, while Nathan McAndrew took 4 for 90 for South Australia and Doggett 3 for 90. No South Australians were, however, able to replicate the joy of NSW veteran Bird on day one, who set up the Blues’ dominance.

Former Rapids allrounder takes three and strikes 65* as Warwickshire top Group B with nine-wicket win

ECB Reporters Network13-Aug-2023Warwickshire seamers Oliver Hannon Dalby and Ed Barnard demolished Worcestershire Rapids with the new ball to maintain their side’s unbeaten record in the Metro Bank One-Day Cup with a resounding nine-wicket success at New Road.Hannon-Dalby and former Worcestershire allrounder Barnard bowled superbly in seam-friendly conditions under cloudy skies to reduce the home side to 25 for 5 during the initial Powerplay. Hannon-Dalby later returned to complete the second List A five-for of his career and he is the leading wicket-taker in the tournament with 14 scalps.He ended with figures of 5 for 31 from 10 overs, while Barnard ended with 3 for 14 from six overs. Only Matthew Waite (44) offered much resistance as the Rapids were dismissed for 108 in 30.2 overs. Barnard then excelled in the opener’s role in partnership with Rob Yates as Warwickshire made light work of their modest target in just 16.2 overs.He completed a 35 ball half-century, his third in this year’s competition, and only six runs were needed for victory when Yates (34) fell to spinner Josh Baker. It means Warwickshire have won their opening four games and they are well on course to reach the knockout stages. Despite this setback, the Rapids remain in contention to qualify after triumphing in three of their five matches to date.Worcestershire were put into bat on the same pitch used for Thursday’s win over Gloucestershire when they amassed 375 for 7. They had to initially battle against the new ball in seamer-friendly conditions on that occasion and only lost a wicket during the powerplay. It was a different story today as Hannon-Dalby and Barnard bowled superbly.Oliver Hannon-Dalby prepares to deliver the ball•Getty Images

Barnard was first to strike when Gareth Roderick, a century-maker against Gloucestershire, pushed hard at a delivery and was pouched by Rob Yates at first slip. Ed Pollock collected the first boundary of the innings with a lofted straight drive at Barnard’s expense but Hannon-Dalby picked up two wickets in the next over.Rob Jones took a stride forward but outside-edged another catch to Yates and captain Jake Libby pushed forward and nicked through to keeper Michael Burgess. There was no let-up in the pressure exerted by the opening pair and Pollock was bowled by a Barnard delivery which nipped back in.Kashif Ali adopted an aggressive approach and lofted Hannon-Dalby for six over long on but it was his only scoring stroke. He tried to put the pressure back on the bowlers and came well forward to Barnard but fell to a fine legside catch by Burgess away to his left.Ben Cox and Waite joined forces and more than doubled the score in adding 33 before the former attempted to cut Michael Booth and presented Yates with another catch. Waite looked in good touch, pulling Booth for four and on drive Craig Miles to the boundary.Logan van Beek gave him good support in a partnership of 28 but there was nothing the Netherland international could do when a delivery from Hannon-Dalby popped up off a length and he fended it to gulley. Hannon-Daly then struck with successive deliveries in his final over.Having battled away for 44 off 60 balls, Waite was bowled by a ball of full length and a similar delivery trapped Baker LBW. Dillon Pennington survived the hat-trick ball but the pace bowler was neatly stumped off Jake Lintott to wrap up the innings.Worcestershire needed early wickets to have any hope of putting their opponents under pressure and Barnard got off the mark with an inside edge for four against Joe Leach. But there were few other alarms for the openers and Barnard upper cut Waite for six to third man and pulled the same bowler through mid-wicket to complete a 35-ball fifty with seven fours and a six.Baker ended the partnership by accounting for Yates but Barnard hit the winning boundary in the next over to conclude a one-sided contest. His unbeaten 65 contained one six and 10 fours.

“I’ve changed my mindset over the winter and since Hobart,” says senior seamer headed for hometown Test

Valkerie Baynes06-Jun-2022If Stuart Broad learned one thing from his dramatic post-Ashes axing, it was to not look too far beyond his next match.The old “one game at a time” phrase couldn’t be more yawn-inducing but Broad’s approach is much more nuanced than that. So, like his wise words to the England team mid-Ashes drubbing about focusing on the present rather than a future that might not come, Broad’s advice to himself about not viewing this week’s clash with New Zealand at Trent Bridge as potentially his last home-ground Test rings true.As things stand, there is no Test scheduled for his native Nottingham next year but, with England looking to take an unassailable 2-0 lead after their stirring win at Lord’s, Broad is revelling in being back in the action alongside fellow seam-bowling veteran James Anderson after both were controversially dumped for the fateful tour of the Caribbean in March.”I’ve changed my mindset over the winter and since Hobart,” Broad said. “It’s not looking too far ahead, it’s just enjoying each week for what it is, give everything, and then reset for the next week.”Jimmy turns 40 this year, four years ago was he thinking 2018 might be his last at Old Trafford? Probably not. That just takes your mind away from enjoying the week.”I started this season not knowing if I’d pull on the England shirt again, I was just enjoying every day for what it was. I wear the Notts shirt with the same pride as the England badge and I’ll attack this week with the same mindset: walk out on that first day, look around the stands, and know how lucky I am to be there.”Related

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England’s five-wicket victory over New Zealand on Sunday’s fourth morning was their first in 10 matches played since they beat India at Headingley last August and heralded a new era under captain Ben Stokes and Test head coach Brendon McCullum.”It’s been one of the most fun weeks we’ve had as a team,” Broad said, “just the relaxed environment, the way we’re talking as a team. It’s not too structured, it’s just a case of what do you need to do to make you feel you’re 10-foot tall?”To see the way we’ve attacked that target shows that mindset. Things went our way – that no-ball makes it a different game – but it’s no mean feat chasing a score like that. That’s a mindset thing.”The no-ball referred to was Colin de Grandomme’s overstep which would have seen Stokes bowled for just 1. Stokes, who took over from former skipper Joe Root ahead of the New Zealand series, went on to make a valuable 54, sharing a significant stand with Root, who struck the winning runs in an unbeaten century the following day after joining forces with Ben Foakes to guide England past their target of 277.The match was Broad’s first under Stokes as captain – he was memorably dropped when Stokes stood in for Root against West Indies in 2020 – and he gave a positive appraisal of the new leadership.”It’s noticeable from Stokesy and Baz that it’s all about taking wickets,” Broad said. “To start the Stokes-McCullum era with a win is huge for us. To chase 277 is awesome for us as a group.”I don’t think anyone who has come to Lord’s can argue it’s not been fun, the style of cricket, edge-of-the-seat at times, the crowd has got involved and it’s something we want to take to Trent Bridge.”And Broad reiterated that his relationship with Root remained strong, despite hints of tension during the Ashes and Root being part of the selection panel which left him out for the subsequent West Indies tour.”Joe and I spoke at length when he stood down as captain and I said to him how much he’s meant to me as a captain, and what a privilege it was playing under him,” Broad said. “I told him I hope he really enjoys the next few years, all that pressure has gone now, he’s already a legend of the game, so he can just go out there and enjoy it.”Joe and I are great friends and I’ve always been someone who can distinguish between business and pleasure. I can’t fall out with someone because they don’t pick me in a team, that would be a bit pathetic.”Broad took two wickets in three balls in a trademark burst•AFP/Getty Images

Broad, who turns 36 this month, would not have been the most left-field option as captain following Root’s decision to step down – had his place in the side been secure at the time – given his experience and the ease with which he fronts the media.But he played a leadership role on and off the field during the first New Zealand Test, buying into England’s succession planning by joining Anderson and impressive debutant seamer Matthew Potts on a pre-match round of golf. Broad also helped whip the Lord’s crowd into a frenzy in the middle of an extraordinary three-ball turning point during the third day when he dismissed centurion Daryl Mitchell and bowled Kyle Jamieson for a duck either side of de Grandhomme’s bizarre run-out while Broad was belting out an unsuccessful appeal for lbw.”Yesterday was probably using my experience, thinking the team needs something here,” Broad said. “It adds a different pressure though. If you whip the crowd up, then bowl a half-volley and go for four you look daft. But I quite like that pressure. You’ll see this summer, when I feel we need that extra lift and momentum, I’ll do it again.”People say Trent Bridge and Edgbaston are the best Test match atmospheres in the country and after what was a really interesting win at Lord’s, it should see people who are heading to Trent Bridge have a lot of excitement about what is to come.”