Ryan Broad

{{short description|Australian cricketer (born 1982)}}

{{Use Australian English|date=September 2012}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Ryan Broad

| country = Australia

| fullname = Ryan Andrew Broad

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1982|3|9|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Right-arm medium

| role = Batsman

| family = Wayne Broad (father)

| club1 = Queensland

| year1 = {{nowrap|2005/06–2011/12}}

| columns = 2

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 57

| runs1 = 3,208

| bat avg1 = 32.73

| 100s/50s1 = 8/13

| top score1 = 135

| deliveries1 = 134

| wickets1 = 2

| bowl avg1 = 39.00

| fivefor1 = 0

| tenfor1 = 0

| best bowling1 = 1/5

| catches/stumpings1 = 35/–

| column2 = List A

| matches2 = 29

| runs2 = 666

| bat avg2 = 23.78

| 100s/50s2 = 0/5

| top score2 = 92

| deliveries2 = –

| wickets2 = –

| bowl avg2 = –

| fivefor2 = –

| tenfor2 = –

| best bowling2 = –

| catches/stumpings2 = 35/–

| source = http://www.cricinfo.com/ausdomestic-09/content/current/player/4237.html Cricinfo

| date = 7 January

| year = 2012

}}

Ryan Andrew Broad (born 9 March 1982) is an Australian professional cricketer who played for the Queensland cricket team. He is a right-handed opening batsman.{{Cite web |title=Ryan Broad |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/4237.html |access-date=8 January 2011 |website=ESPNcricinfo}} Broad was educated at the Anglican Church Grammar School.{{Cite book |last=Mason |first=James |title=Churchie: The Centenary Register |publisher=The Anglican Church Grammar School |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-646-55807-3 |location=Brisbane, Australia}}

Broad is the son of Wayne Broad, who played for Queensland between 1977 and 1983. He was first selected to represent Queensland in November 2005 in a four-day match against Victoria (he scored 23 and 3 in each innings).{{Cite news |date=17 November 2005 |title=Broad to follow father's footsteps |work=ABC News |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2005/11/17/1509102.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120717120824/http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2005/11/17/1509102.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 July 2012 |access-date=8 January 2011}}{{Cite web |title=Queensland v Victoria at Brisbane, Nov 18-21, 2005 |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/engine/match/226233.html |access-date=8 January 2011 |website=ESPNcricinfo}} He took the field for the Australian national team as a substitute fieldsman during the 2006–07 Ashes series, where he caught Andrew Strauss.{{Cite news |date=27 November 2006 |title=Peter Lalor's Ashes dispatches |work=The Australian |publisher=News Limited |url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/sport/peter-lalors-ashes-dispatches/story-e6frg7rx-1111112588545 |access-date=8 January 2011}} In November 2011, he reached his highest score in first class cricket, hitting 135 in the second innings of a Sheffield Shield match against Western Australia.{{Cite news |date=3 November 2011 |title=Bulls seek to set WA a final day target |work=ABC News |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-03/bulls-seek-to-set-wa-a-final-day-target/3626136?section=qld |access-date=7 January 2012}}

Broad last played for Queensland in the 2011/12 season and he retired from Queensland Premier Cricket, where he had been captaining Wynnum Manly, after the 2015/16 season. He had passed his father to achieve the record amount of runs scored by anyone to bat for Wynnum Manly in his last season.{{Cite news |date=9 April 2016 |title=Nathan Rabnott wants club success after taking over as skipper from the retiring great Ryan Broad

|url=https://www.couriermail.com.au/questnews/southeast/nathan-rabnott-wants-club-success-after-taking-over-as-skipper-from-the-retiring-great-ryan-broad/news-story/90cf5a76a8d6c6d2342736a80d74f8da|website=Courier Mail |access-date=13 January 2021}}