Stuart Broad

Stuart Broad has won us over

We made Stuart Broad one of our ones to watch this season. Despite that endorsement, we’ve not been fully-convinced of his worth yet. A lot of hyperbole’s been spat in his direction and we weren’t really sure where it was coming from.

We think we get it now.

It wasn’t so much the way he bowled. We knew he could bowl. It wasn’t so much the way he batted. We knew he could bat. It was the simple fact that he batted so well, for so long, from that position and that he saw it through to the end.

We just thought: Here is a cricketer you want in your team. Batsman, bowler, whatever. Just get him in the team.

Stuart Broad to join ‘ones to watch’ at Nottinghamshire

Here’s a short list of some of our ones to watch over the last couple of years:

• Stuart Broad
• Bilal Shafayat
• Will Jefferson
• Mark Davies

What do you notice? That’s right. All of them have moved to Nottinghamshire since we identified them, albeit only on loan in Mark Davies’ case.

What’s going on? Are the Nottinghamshire management using King Cricket in some form of unofficial consultancy capacity? Don’t do that. We don’t support you. We support Lancashire.

That does it. Next year we’re going to name Ajit Agarkar as an excellent potential overseas signing. How d’you like them apples, Nottinghamshire? Eh? Eh? How d’you like that, we said? Yeah, we’re talking to you.