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Magnificent!

Stuart Broad scalps Travis Head to determination to 600 Test wickets soon aft tea.

The champion speedy bangs the shot successful short, lulls Head into a hook and is delighted to spot him spread retired to Joe Root astatine good leg, the Aussie batsman falling for 48.

Broad becomes conscionable the 5th antheral to instrumentality 600 Test wickets and the 2nd paceman, matching the phenomenal feat of long-time teammate James Anderson.

Muttiah Muralidaran (800 Test wickets), Shane Warne (708), Anderson (688), Anil Kumble (619) and Broad are the lone men to person captured 600 wickets successful the longest format.

"Absolutely fantastic achievement," Michael Atherton says successful commentary.

"No substance what benignant of a bowler you are, to get that fig of wickets is amazing, but to bash it arsenic a accelerated bowler, with each the stresses and strains connected your body, is rather incredible.

"In the discourse of this crippled and this day, that is simply a large wicket of Travis Head.

"But it is simply a precise peculiar wicket that Stuart Broad will retrieve for a long, agelong time.

"It is specified a staggering achievement."

The Aussies are 5-189.

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