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No sooner had he revelled in reaching one milestone, Stuart Broad was mourning a rather less welcome record.
For the England legend, Saturday at Edgbaston should have been remembered as the day he became only the sixth Test bowler to collect 550 wickets.
Instead, Broad will want to forget all about a morning in which he suffered the ignominy of conceding the most runs ever from a single Test over.
Stuart Broad joined great team-mate James Anderson in having taken 550 Test wickets
The 36-year-old is already the owner of the joint-most expensive over in Twenty20 internationals, having been smashed for six sixes by Indian Yuvraj Singh at the 2007 World Cup. But Broad now also holds a second unwanted world record after an extraordinary exchange against India’s No10 Jasprit Bumrah.
He went for a mind-blowing 35 runs in a shambolic eight-ball set, which led to Nasser Hussain accusing him of ‘losing the plot’ for persisting with bowling bouncers at the tourists’ tail.
The previous most costly over in Tests was 28. That has happened three times, the bowlers being England’s Jimmy Anderson and Joe Root, and South African spinner Robin Peterson.
Despite an impressively economical record Broad then conceded 35 runs in just one over
‘Sad to lose my record today,’ joked Peterson on Twitter. ‘Oh well, records are made to be broken I guess. Onto the next one.’ For Broad and England captain Ben Stokes, however, it may be harder to move on.
Broad’s day began with him celebrating that more favourable landmark as he dismissed
