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Ashes hero Stuart Broad in line for a knighthood, MPs claim

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Ashes hero Stuart Broad in line for a knighthood, MPs claim
Ashes hero Stuart Broad in line for a knighthood, MPs claim

ASHES hero Stuart Broad is in line for a knighthood, MPs claim.

Cricket-mad Tory Chief Whip Simon Hart is said to be leading the charge for the England bowler to become a Sir.

Stuart Broad, pictured here with fiancée Mollie King and daughter Annabella, is in line for a knighthood, according to MPs qeituiqudihqprw
Stuart Broad, pictured here with fiancée Mollie King and daughter Annabella, is in line for a knighthood, according to MPsCredit: Rex Features
He ended his 604-wicket Test career in spectacular fashion against Australia last week
He ended his 604-wicket Test career in spectacular fashion against Australia last weekCredit: News Group Newspapers Ltd

Broad, 37, ended his 604-wicket Test career in spectacular fashion last week.

He hit the last ball he faced for six, then took a wicket with his final ball.

His heroics helped England beat Australia at The Oval to draw this year’s Ashes series.

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He posed with fiancée Mollie King, 36, and daughter Annabella after the match.

MPs reckon ministers are also keen to again honour Broad — who played international cricket for 17 years and was made an MBE in 2016 for services to the sport.

James Daly, who chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Cricket, said: “A knighthood would be richly deserved.”

A source said PM Rishi Sunak, also a cricket fan, was “very sympathetic” to the idea.

No10 declined to comment.

A number of other England cricket legends have previously been handed gongs.

Ex-captains Andrew Strauss and Alistair Cook have both been knighted.

While Ian Botham sits as a Tory peer in the House of Lords.

Harry Cole

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