STUART BROAD was just one ball away from being taken out of the England attack before his fairytale ending at The Oval.
And he admitted his legs turned to jelly as he ran in for the delivery that dismissed Todd Murphy.
It saw 37-year-old Broad – in his last professional game – kept on by captain Ben Stokes.
And he went on to claim the match-winning wicket of Alex Carey to tie The Ashes 2-2.
Broad, whose first five balls of the Murphy over cost six runs, said: “Weirdly, Stokesy told me before that over, before I got Todd Murphy out, ‘This will be your last over’.