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  Graphic, not novel: How Lord's did for Broad the Enforcer

  Posted: January 25th, 2012, 9:16pm MST by Pavilionopinions

  Tweets abounded following Stuart Broad's very commendable 3-47 on the first day of the 2nd Test against Pakistan. Amidst the praise and usual Barbie banter, however, there was also lots of familiar comment about how Broad wasted a period of his career, albeit a relatively short one, striving to be England's 'Enforcer' i.e. banging the ball in short to rough up the batsman. This seems a fair assessment, not least because Broad is a 'pop-up bowler' in that he makes things happen when a game is drifting away from England in the field - Trent Bridge last year, for

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