{"id":298698,"date":"2023-12-20T18:25:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T18:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/?p=298698"},"modified":"2023-12-20T18:25:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T18:25:09","slug":"stuart-broad-is-excited-to-truly-indulge-himself-this-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/%d1%81ricket\/stuart-broad-is-excited-to-truly-indulge-himself-this-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuart Broad is excited to truly indulge himself this Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> Stuart Broad is looking forward to tucking into some cheese and a glass of red wine in his first Christmas as a former England bowler&#8230; as he prepares for some long-awaited time off over the festive period<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Stuart Broad, 37,\u00a0 retired as England&#8217;s second-highest ever Test wicket taker\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>His retirement came at the end of a thrilling Ashes series on home soil\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mary Earps won the 2023 BBC SPOTY Award ahead of Broad on Tuesday night<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It has been a long time since Stuart Broad has been allowed to truly indulge himself at Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>And so, as his former England team-mates tuck into their Christmas dinners in the knowledge that a gruelling five-Test tour to India awaits in January, Broad may even allow himself an extra roast potato or two.<\/p>\n<p>After all, the gruelling days of charging in to bowl with the Three Lions on his chest are over. Broad announced his shock retirement from the sport last summer, but still had time to lead England to an Ashes series-levelling victory in the fifth Test at the Oval before hanging up his bowling boots.<\/p>\n<p>Few will forget his contribution in an England shirt. Broad finished with a remarkable 604 Test wickets to his name, second only in the fast bowling rankings to great friend Jimmy Anderson, who, at 41, continues to defy Father Time himself.<\/p>\n<p>For Broad, smashing his final ball in Test cricket for six before claiming an emotional last wicket with his final delivery in the game was the perfect ending. One that every great sportsperson deserves but one that so few are often afforded in reality.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/20\/16\/79177839-0-image-m-5_1703089615976.jpg\" height=\"473\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Stuart Broad will be looking forward to his first Christmas with his family since retiring from cricket<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/20\/17\/79180325-12886463-image-a-3_1703092995983.jpg\" height=\"426\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Broad took a wicket with his final ball in Test cricket at the climax of a thrilling Ashes series<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/20\/16\/79177835-0-image-a-2_1703089597931.jpg\" height=\"440\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Broad&#8217;s was a send-off that most sporting legends aspire to, but few every actually achieve<\/p>\n<p>But now there will be no more Christmases away from home. Over the next week you&#8217;re more likely to find Broad wearing a Santa hat than his iconic headband.<\/p>\n<p>And rather than plotting ways to get the better of Virat Kohli &amp; Co, Broad&#8217;s main concern will be nailing the Christmas dinner. He, his fianc\u00e9e Mollie King and daughter Annabella will welcome the whole family to their house on the big day.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019ll be cooking, chilling out, eating the cheese,\u2019 joked the 37-year-old. \u2018Boxing Day Tests, in particular, are one of the most famous you can play in, they\u2019re great.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But you wake up on Christmas morning, generally the other side of the world, you have a bit of training, get back and have a team Christmas lunch and then go back to your room and try to find Home Alone.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Home Alone will still be getting watched but it might be getting watched with a glass of red, which I\u2019ve not been allowed before.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Broad&#8217;s achievements on the field were recognised with a second-place finish at last night\u2019s BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.<\/p>\n<p>Lionesses goalkeeper Mary Earps topped the public vote\u00a0with world champion heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson completing the top three.<\/p>\n<p>While both those athletes&#8217; attentions now turn to replicating those successes in 2024, Broad has to figure out exactly where life away from the game he loves so dearly takes him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/20\/16\/79176993-0-image-a-6_1703090069355.jpg\" height=\"445\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Broad was beaten to the Sports Personality of the Year Award by Lionesses star Mary Earps\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/20\/17\/79178381-12886463-The_37_year_old_former_bowler_claimed_that_he_wanted_to_control_-a-1_1703092801826.jpg\" height=\"390\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old former bowler claimed that he wanted to control his retirement from cricket<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Cricket is my greatest hobby so I want to stay involved in the game somehow,\u2019 he said. \u2018I don\u2019t know exactly what that will be as of yet but I love talking about the game, I love the insights and diving into why things are happening and how things are happening.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Coaching\u2026 it\u2019s quite hard to know exactly what route I\u2019ll go down because it was a bit of an unplanned move away from the playing side.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Ultimately, I\u2019m 37 now but I definitely felt like I had another couple more years left in me. But the most important thing for me was controlling.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I wanted to finish in an England shirt, I wanted to finish at the top. I didn\u2019t want to start that downward spiral. England versus Australia is the pinnacle for me and I wanted to finish at that time.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/article-12886463\/Stuart-Broad-Christmas-England.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Stuart Broad is looking forward to tucking into some cheese and a glass of red wine in his first Christmas as a former England bowler&#8230; <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/%d1%81ricket\/stuart-broad-is-excited-to-truly-indulge-himself-this-christmas\/\" title=\"Stuart Broad is excited to truly indulge himself this Christmas\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Stuart Broad is excited to truly indulge himself this Christmas - Sportstoft<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/\u0441ricket\/stuart-broad-is-excited-to-truly-indulge-himself-this-christmas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Stuart Broad is excited to truly indulge himself this Christmas - Sportstoft\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Stuart Broad is looking forward to tucking into some cheese and a glass of red wine in his first Christmas as a former England bowler&#8230; 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