Broad: I won't be tamed

Stuart Broad knows he must never lose the fire in his belly which makes him such a feared presence in England's pace attack.

Broad had his first significant brush with officialdom when he was fined 50% of his match fee after throwing a dead ball back at Pakistan's wicketkeeper-batsman Zulqarnain Haider during this month's second npower Test victory at Edgbaston.

Broad's occasionally excitable on-field persona had brought predictions from many, long before Birmingham, that disciplinary measures were inevitable at some point, but the Nottinghamshire bowler said: "You have to have a part of you like that as a bowler - that fire in you to keep going. I love having those battles. I am certainly not going to rein back too much."

He added: "It is important as a bowler that you always need to have a presence.

"If you lose that you lose quite a bit, a big part of your armoury.

"It comes naturally with me, and at times it is a huge advantage.

"I don't want to lose it - I want to keep getting wickets."