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Stuart Broad RETIRES from all forms of cricket at the end of this fifth and final Ashes

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Stuart Broad RETIRES from all forms of cricket at the end of this fifth and final Ashes Test after taking over 600 Test wickets to join Sky Sports

Stuart Broad will retire from all forms of cricket following the final Ashes test
The 37-year-old decided the time was right at the close of the second day’s play
Broad will now join the Sky Sports commentary team with immediate effect

Updated: 13:46 EDT, 29 July 2023

Stuart Broad hopes to go out on the highest of highs today with a series-levelling victory over Australia after deciding this final Ashes Test and the 167th of his career will be his last.

Broad, 37, will retire upon the conclusion of this match following a 17-year career that has seen him become England’s second most prolific Test bowler overall behind close friend and new ball partner Jimmy Anderson, and the number one when it comes to Ashes wickets.

He will now join Sky Sports’ commentary team with immediate effect, after deciding to quit playing while still at the top of his game rather than hold on to tour India in early 2024.

Only Australia’s Mitchell Starc has managed more than the 20 wickets that Broad has taken during an Ashes series in which he became only the fifth player in Test history to reach the 600 mark and the first Englishman to take 150 against Australia, surpassing Ian Botham’s tally of 148 in the process.

Mail Sport understands that Broad decided the time was right at the close of the second day’s play of a contest at the Kia Oval that Ben Stokes’ team must win to secure a 2-2 draw.

Stuart Broad will retire upon the conclusion of the final Ashes Test following a 17-year career

The 37-year-old will now join Sky Sports’ cricket commentary team with immediate effect

Broad decided the time was right at the close of the second day’s play of a contest at the Oval

He informed long-standing team-mates Anderson and Joe Root of his decision before play on Saturday morning, and was said to be fighting back tears in the process.

England fed off the emotion on Saturday, powering their way to a lead in excess of 300 runs on the third day.

The news comes just hours after fellow veteran Anderson, 41, insisted he had more to offer at the highest level.

Exiting centre stage on his own terms and at the end of the most prestigious of series feels appropriate.

Like his father Chris, facing Australia has brought out the best in Broad: his five-wicket burst at the Oval in 2009 set up victory and a 2-1 series win while his eight for 15 at Trent Bridge in 2015 was one of the great Ashes performances.

He informed long-standing team-mates Anderson and Joe Root (above) of his decision before play on Saturday morning, and was said to be fighting back tears

Ben Stokes’ team must win to secure a 2-2 draw against Australia in this year’s Ashes Test

In between, he also ransacked the Australian batting with a man-of-the-match performance at Chester-le-Street in 2013 as England eased to a 3-0 victory.

But he has also been public enemy number one in Australian cricket circles, the target of booing from the stands during the winter of 2013-14, triggered by a refusal to walk after nicking behind in the Trent Bridge Test the previous summer.

He has also gained a reputation for revving up the atmosphere in home Tests with his gesticulating to crowds and was this week involved in another Aussie-riling moment when he randomly walked up to the striker’s end and switched the bails – Marnus Labuschagne countered his way from the field after edging the very next delivery.

Broad’s early career saw him feature across all three international formats and he came back from being hit for six sixes in an over by Yuvraj Singh at the 2007 Twenty20 World Cup by being a member of the team that lifted England’s first ever global trophy at the same event in the Caribbean three years later.

The Nottinghamshire seamer also captained England in T20 cricket for a period before concentrating on Test cricket from 2016 onwards.

England had already moved away from him and Anderson following a disastrous 50-over World Cup the previous year.

His resurgence under the captaincy of Ben Stokes followed a controversial omission for the tour of the Caribbean in the spring of last year, and followed another episode in 2020 when his omission from a Test against West Indies in Southampton triggered a public outburst and him to contemplate whether he had an England future.

Now, however, he will have the chance to say goodbye in style to Test cricket and will do so with only Muttiah Muralitharan, Shane Warne, Anil Kumble and Anderson above him statistically amongst its bowlers.

H will have the chance to say goodbye in style to Test cricket and will do so with only Muttiah Muralitharan, Shane Warne, Anil Kumble and Anderson above him statistically

Inside Philadelphia’s zombie land: ‘Tranq’ addicts crowd sidewalks and shoot up in broad

admin — Sat, 27 May 2023 17:56:01 +0000

Shocking footage has revealed the scale of Philadelphia’s untamed ‘tranq’ epidemic, which has transformed the city’s streets into a drug-infested hellhole.

The Kensington neighborhood – known as ‘ground zero’ for the city’s drug crisis – is seen littered with zombie-like addicts, with many shamelessly shooting up in broad daylight.

Gruesome scenes in the ‘City of Brotherly Love’ show droves of homeless addicts aimlessly staggering through the streets, surrounded by tents and scattered trash.

The harrowing situation is fueled by the rise of the drug Xylazine, also known as ‘tranq’ – a lethal sedative that is often used to enhance the effects of heroin, fentanyl and cocaine.

The shocking footage laid bare how ‘tranq’ has turned Philadelphia’s Kensington district into a drug-infested hellhole

‘Tranq’ users experience debilitating highs that leave them in a zombie-like stupor

Drug users either inject xylazine or smoke it, mixed with fentanyl and other drugs

The inner city district has long been a magnet for drug users seeking their next high, but the scale of problems caused by xylazine is shocking even to locals who have become accustomed to such distressing scenes

Philadelphia has become overwhelmed with drug-fueled crime under woke District Attorney Larry Krasner, a self-described ‘progressive prosecutor.’

His failure to clamp down on crimes and handling of the city’s drug crisis led to his impeachment in 2022 for ‘dereliction of duty’, however he remains in office after his impeachment trial was indefinitely postponed.

But the effects of his tenure has seen tranq take over the streets of Philadelphia, with new footage showing a mass of addicts hunched over in a stupor or passed out on the sidewalk.

‘I’ve never seen human beings remain in these kinds of conditions,’ said Sarah Laurel, who runs outreach organization Savage Sisters, earlier this year.

‘They have open, gaping wounds, they can’t walk, and they tell me, ‘If I go to the hospital, I’m going to get sick. They’re so terrified of the detox.’

Kensington, which up until the 1950s was a bustling industrial district, is now described by The Philadelphia Inquirer as ‘the poorest neighborhood in America’s poorest big city’

A person is pictured passed out from the drug. Xylazine is now found in 90 per cent of all Philadelphia’s heroin

A man with a gaping wound on his arm sits slumped on the street. Xylazine frequently causes wounds that require amputation

One woman uses a shard of mirror to check where she is injecting herself, on the streets of Kensington

Earlier this year, disturbing photographs obtained by DailyMail.com laid bare the scale of the city’s tragic drug problem.

Amid a flood of the popular and dangerous drug, the sidewalks are more reminiscent of a scene from the Walking Dead than a bustling metro.

Tranq can be consumed in a number of ways as it is mixed with other substances to enhance its ‘high’ – which has a similar effect to other opioid drugs.

Users are seen smoking, snorting, injecting, swallowing and inhaling the drug, with some even seen injecting it between the toes in their feet.

The effects of the drug appear very similar to that of an overdose, as victims suffer from an uncontrolled stupor of sedation, slowed breathing and unconsciousness.

Xylazine also often causes raw, gaping wounds on its victims, many of whom are found suffering from gruesome injuries while they lay among garbage and syringes.

Startling figures also found that tranq had been found in more than 90 percent of fentanyl samples in Philadelphia, and emergency rooms have reportedly seen skin and soft tissue injuries increase four-fold in the last three years.

The above map shows the percentage change in drug overdose deaths by state across the US. Each has seen a rise except for Hawaii. In Oklahoma deaths did not increase or decrease compared to previous years

The above graph shows the cumulative annual figure for the number of drug overdose deaths reported in the US by month. It also shows that they are continuing to trend upwards

The above graph shows the CDC estimates for the number of deaths triggered by drug overdoses every year across the United States. It reveals figures have now reached a record high, and are surging on the last three years

Deaths caused by fentanyl in the US surged in the 2010s. At the start of the decade, 2,666 Americans died of a fentanyl overdose. This figure shot up to 19,413 by 2016. Covid made the situation worse, with a record 72,484 deaths recorded in 2021

Users roam the streets in a trance-like state while on the drug, unaware of their movements and sprawled out on the filthy sidewalks.

It has taken center stage on the drug market as a powerful cutting agent, and the zombie-like drug is one of the most addictive substances on the black market.

Philip Moore, chief medical officer for the nonprofit treatment provider Gaudenzia, previously detailed how weaning people off Xylazine is a complicated procedure.

‘We’ll start treating for opioid withdrawal, and they should be getting better — but we’ll see chills, sweating, restlessness, anxiety, agitation,’ he said.

‘They’re very, very unpleasant symptoms. That’s what triggers us that we’re dealing with a more complicated withdrawal, that there’s more xylazine in the mix.’

He said he had prescribed clonidine and lofexidine, both medications for high blood pressure, to get patients through withdrawal, as well as sedatives such as phenobarbital or Valium.

Moore said there needs to be better education for medical practitioners, to enable them to deal with the withdrawal symptoms.

‘The challenge is educating other physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, and the community,’ he said.

Drugs are openly used and passed round. One addict (in red shirt) is seen holding a syringe in his teeth

Kensington’s streets are littered with syringes, garbage and homeless encampments, with addicts dealing and using drugs in broad daylight

Xylazine leaves users in a blackout stupor, making them vulnerable to violent attacks and rape

Huddled on the edge of the sidewalk, a woman helps inject drugs into a man’s arm, aided by a band to find his veins

‘If we don’t recognize xylazine withdrawal, patients are really uncomfortable and they’ll leave treatment because they don’t feel like they’re getting better.’

Philadelphia is not alone in its struggle to contain rampant drug addiction.

In 2021, there were over 107,000 deaths from drug overdoses, an increase of nearly 15 percent from the year prior.

National trends indicate the numbers of drug deaths continue to soar, with tranq and fentanyl ‘zombies’ slumped on streets across America.

‘This is the picture of addiction… This is what happens’: Mother of xylazine overdose victim describes her son’s addiction

Nora Sheehan lost her son Andrew Jugler, 29, in October, 2021, after he took a deadly concoction of xylazine and fentanyl following an eight-year battle with addiction.

She said her son’s addiction began after he started taking the oxycontin painkiller in 2010, but then gradually progressed to heroin and fentanyl.

In the wake of her loss, Sheehan, 56, shared a photo of her last moments with her son on social media to try and raise awareness about the devastating impact of the opioid crisis.

Nora Sheehan, 56, lost her son Andrew Jugler, 29, in October, 2021, after he took a deadly concoction of the Xylazine and fentanyl following an eight-year battle with addiction

‘Holding my dead son in my arms, this is the picture of addiction… This is what happens,’ caption Sheehan, from Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.

The administrative coordinator feared for her son when he joined a group living in the woods in Elkton, Maryland last summer at the height of his addiction.

Andrew Jugler, 29, died in 2021 of a xylazine overdose after an eight-year battle with addiction

She and Andrew’s two sisters, Candace Jugler, 38, and Haley Jugler, 30, tried to enroll him in a rehab program but failed.

She said: ‘When he moved to the woods I asked him if I could buy him a new tent or a new sleeping bag but he refused. I begged him to come home.

‘While I was trying to drive Andrew to a detox center in September he opened the door while my car was going 60 miles per hour as if to throw himself out.

‘I stopped the car and started screaming. I asked him in that moment where he wanted to be buried.’

The 29-year-old died on October 7 but it was two days before Ms Sheehan could identify her son’s body.

Ms Sheehan said: ‘I couldn’t grieve until I saw him. Until then I had been holding out hope.

‘They told me to prepare for the smell in the room, because his body had been outside for a while in the hot weather.

‘That was the farthest thing from my mind. I wanted to hold him and hug him one last time.

‘Andrew was incredibly kind and caring. He was a self-made mechanic and so loved by all of us, by his sisters and his niece and his stepdad.’

Instead of a traditional funeral service, Ms Sheehan and her family held a memorial service in his name and invited Andrew’s friends, who were battling homelessness and addiction.

She added: ‘I hope that sharing this image will impact addicts but mainly I hope the rest of us stop walking around blindly.

‘I never thought heroin and fentanyl were as prevalent in my community as they are. It’s an epidemic.’

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Stuart Broad RETIRES from all forms of cricket at the end of this fifth and final Ashes

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