Stats - Stuart Broad signs off as member of elite club

604 Number of wickets for Stuart Broad in Test cricket*. He is one of only five men to claim 600-plus wickets in the format and the second most for an England player after James Anderson (690). The English duo of Broad and Anderson are the only pace bowlers to be part of the 600-wicket club.

153 Test wickets for Broad versus Australia are the most by any bowler against them. He is one of the five bowlers to claim 150-plus wickets against an opponent in Tests. Broad finishes as England's highest wicket-taker of the Ashes, and the third-highest behind Shane Warne (195) and Glenn McGrath (157).

398 Broad's Test wickets on England soil. These are the third-most wickets for a bowler at home in the format, next only to Muthiah Muralidaran's 493 in Sri Lanka and Anderson's 434 in England.

1039 Wickets shared by Broad and Anderson in the 138 Tests they played together. These are the most wickets picked up by a pair when they played together in Test cricket. Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath are the other pair with 1000-plus wickets, as they shared 1001 in 104 Tests for Australia.

106 Test wickets by Broad at home against Australia. Only two other bowlers have taken 100-plus wickets against an opponent in a country - 129 by Shane Warne against England in England and 105 by Anderson against India in England.

17 Number of times David Warner has got out to Broad in Test cricket, the joint-third most dismissals for a batter against a bowler in the format. Broad had Warner's wicket in both innings of a Test on four occasions, the joint-most times any bowler had dismissed a particular batter twice in a Test.

6 Number of batters dismissed by Broad on ten or more instances in Test cricket. No other bowler has had ten or more dismissals against six different players. The next best is the 10-plus dismissals of five players by McGrath, Curtly Ambrose, Kapil Dev, Malcolm Marshall and Courtney Walsh.

19.9 Broad's bowling strike rate when taking a five-wicket haul in Test cricket. The strike rate gives an idea of how Broad runs through the opponents when on a roll, as only Vernon Philander has a better strike rate during five-wicket hauls (bowlers with ten or more five-wicket hauls).

3662 Test runs by Broad are the most by any of the seven players with 500-plus wickets in the format. Shane Warne, 3154, is the only other player to have scored 3000-plus runs and take 500-plus wickets in Test cricket.

3582 Broad's Test runs when he batted at No.8 and lower. These are the most runs scored by a player while batting in the tail (8-11) in Test cricket, finishing ahead of Daniel Vettori's 3502.

6 Number of players to score 1000-plus runs and take 100-plus wickets against an opponent in Test cricket, including Broad against Australia. Broad scored 1019 runs against the Aussies, going along with his 153 wickets.

2 Recorded instances of players hitting their last ball of Test cricket for a six, including Broad off Mitchell Starc at The Oval. Wayne Daniel struck a six off Australia's Tom Hogan in the 1984 Port of Spain Test, his last appearance for the West Indies.