Every chance that Broad will be the last to join bowling's exclusive club

IT WAS probably not how Stuart Broad envisaged reaching the landmark and not merely because David Warner was not the batter to fall.

- Malik Ouzia

But, moments after tea here, a ball banged short into the deck was hooked by Travis Head to the man in the deep and Broad became the fifth - and who knows, perhaps the last - man to reach 600 wickets in Tests.

"There was a clip that came up in the changing room of my 100th, 200th they were caught long-off, long-on, midwicket so they're not the old classical dismissals," Broad laughed afterwards. "The good thing is it was caught by our leading catcher ever in Joe Root, so I can tell my grandkids it was caught first slip!"

Head's scalp was Broad's 149th wicket against Australia, a new record surpassing Ian Botham, the seamer, like a double-crossing agent, pointing to the role the enemy of yesteryear played in moulding a friend-turned-foe.

"I grew up completely obsessed watching Ashes cricket and I suppose that's why some of my heroes are [Shane] Warnie, Glenn McGrath, some of the great Aussie team," Broad said.