‘Punish the bowlers - Stuart Broad suggests major change in Test cricket

Former English pacer Stuart Broad has revealed one rule that he would like to change in Test cricket. The 37-year-old said that he would make no-balls a free hit. The former pacer opined that the bowlers would be punished more in Test cricket with this rule, and it could be entertaining for the spectators to see the batters muscling balls out of the park more often.

Notably, Broad recently announced his retirement from Test cricket after England drew the home Ashes 2-2. Broad and veteran pacer James Anderson were asked questions by a group of children along with former cricketers Simon Doull and Nick Knight. Broad was asked about the one rule that he would like changed in cricket. 

"In Test cricket I would make a no ball a free hit too, because you might have your three slips and gully in and cover in and all that, but if you bowl a front foot no ball – it’s easy to say now [that] I’m done, isn’t it? Punish the bowlers – but I would make every no ball a free hit because how good would it be to be sat in the crowd with all the fielders around the bat and then the batter could just whack one out of the ground?" Stuart Broad said on Sky Sports’ coverage of The Hundred.

I’d get rid of a few rules and laws because there are too many: James Anderson

Furthermore, veteran pacer James Anderson was asked the same question about Test cricket and the rules that he would like to change. The 41-year-old stated that he would change a variety of rules because there are simply too many.

"I’d get rid of a few rules and Laws because there are too many – it confuses me – but I can’t think of anything off the top of my head," James Anderson said.