Nottinghamshire fast bowler Stuart Broad is desperate to earn a recall to England’s white ball set up as he aims to represent the national side on home soil in the ICC Cricket World Cup in 2019.
Broad has been out of England’s shorter format plans since February, when he was part of the side which succumbed to South Africa in Cape Town.
However, Broad is keen to force his way back into the reckoning as he looks to gain more experience in white ball tournaments, starting with a stint at Hobart Hurricanes in the KFC Big Bash League.
"I'm desperate, as I think every England cricketer would be, to play at the 2019 World Cup in England," he said.
“It is a long way away but it will creep up.
"I'm trying to find more time to play white-ball cricket. I've got a bit of a proven track record with the white ball, my stats are pretty good in the 50-over stuff, I just need to play a bit more of it."
Broad has been ever-present in the Test side over the past four years, not missing a single match since the start of the 2013 season.
In that time he has made nearly 50 consecutive appearances, amassing 157 wickets at an average of 30.01 and taking career-best match figures of 11-121 and a Test best innings analysis of 8-15, both against Australia.
However, the 30-year-old knows that his leading role in the five-day format means he hasn’t been able to play as much white ball cricket.
"The tricky part of playing a lot of test cricket, I've played 48 on the bounce now, is that you don’t actually get a lot of time to play white-ball cricket,” he said.
“It’s quite hard to keep up with the standard in a game that moves forward so quickly.”
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