The Ashes 2023: Stuart Broad says he will retire with "pure joy and happiness" after fairytale finish

Stuart Broad says helium volition permission cricket with "pure joyousness and happiness" aft taking the last 2 wickets arsenic England drew the Ashes with a 49-run victory.

It was a fitting extremity for an Ashes legend, who announced connected Saturday helium volition discontinue aft the Test.

"It is special," said 37-year-old Broad, who ends with 604 Test wickets aft a 15-year Test career.

"It is simply a hard determination to locomotion distant from the crippled I emotion but I wanted my past shot to beryllium successful an situation that is truthful peculiar and playing athletics I inactive emotion - for my lasting representation to beryllium axenic joyousness and happiness.

"That is however I consciousness now."

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