Ryan Andrew Broad (born 9 March 1982 in

Herston, Queensland Herston is an inner suburb of the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Herston had a population of 2,215 people. Geography Herston is located by car north of the Brisbane GPO. The area of Herston includes the Herston Health Pr ...

) is an Australian professional cricketer who plays for the

Queensland Bulls The Queensland cricket team or the Queensland Bulls is the Brisbane-based Queensland representative cricket side in Australia's domestic cricket tournaments: *Sheffield Shield: four-day matches with first-class status, since the 1926–27 sea ...

. He is a right-handed

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. Broad was educated at the

Anglican Church Grammar School The Anglican Church Grammar School (ACGS), formerly the Church of England Grammar School and commonly referred to as Churchie, is an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school for boys, located in East Brisbane, an inner suburb of Brisbane, ...

. 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). He took the field for the Australian national team as a substitute fieldsman during the

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, where he

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. In November 2011, he reached his highest score in first class cricket, hitting 135 in the second innings of a

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match against

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. Broad last played for Queensland in the 2011/12 season and he retired from

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, 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.

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Queensland cricketers Australian cricketers Living people 1982 births Cricketers from Brisbane People educated at Anglican Church Grammar School {{Australia-cricket-bio-1980s-stub