Forget nets, young Broad saved it all for the big stage

By Richard Edwards
IT’S impossible to predict future success in sport, but some are more confident of what lies ahead than others.
Take the latest prospective member of Test cricket’s exclusive 400 wicket club for example.
“I remember we went out into the outdoor nets in preseason,” says Tim Boon, the former Leicestershire coach.
“Broady [Stuart Broad] looked at me before he was going to bowl and said, ‘I don’t want to bowl too much in the nets because I’m going to have a long career. I don’t want to waste too many balls’.
“E...

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