Watch: Stuart Broad gets standing ovation, guard of honour from Australia on Day 4 of Oval Test

Day 4 of the fifth and final Ashes Test got off to quite the emotional start with England pace great Stuart Broad offered a grand welcome by the crowd at The Oval and a guard of honour by Australia.

Broad, after all, had taken the cricketing world by storm by announcing his decision to hang up his boots for good at the end of the Oval Test, which entered its penultimate day on Sunday. The fourth and fifth days of the fifth Test thus will be Broad’s final days as a professional cricketer.

“Tomorrow (Sunday) or Monday will be my last game of cricket. It has been a wonderful ride and a huge privilege to wear the Nottinghamshire and England badge as much as I have,” Broad said while announcing his retirement,” Broad said after the close of play on Day 3 on Saturday.

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The 37-year-old walked out to bat with fellow pace legend James Anderson, with whom he has had a long, successful new-ball partnership and has played more than a hundred Tests together, as the pair resumed England’s innings from their overnight score of 389/9.

Watch the heartwarming moment here:

For the final time with the bat…@StuartBroad8 and @Jimmy9 head out to the middle together