NOTTS all-rounder Stuart Broad has admitted that he uses his 'hatred' of opposing batsmen to fire his performances on the big stage.

"I love winning, I love playing to win. You need some of that to be a bowler," he tells the October issue of The Wisden Cricketer magazine.

"You need to have a hatred for the batsman to make sure you have that real fire to perform."

When England dropped him after the Headingley Test earlier this summer he channelled the motivation to take wickets in Championship cricket. He says the experience made him realise how big a deal being a Test cricketer is.

"When you are involved in the Test, you are always doing your thing, preparing, playing. You can get in your own bubble and not realise how much support and love there is for it – but when you are out of the England side, everyone was watching it and talking about it," said Broad.

"You realise how enthralled everyone is by it. Sometimes you forget how massive it is. I really missed it."

Despite the accusations of lacking penetration that saw him left out of the Test side, Broad denies he is trying to increase his pace, preferring accuracy and movement to outright speed.

"I am not trying to bowl quicker," he said. "I can improve my pace and bowl in the high-80s but it is important not to chase pace because you can lose what you do well, putting the ball in the right areas. It is like driving a car: if you try to drive round corners at 90mph, you are going to crash more times than if you drive at 75mph."

Those closest to him accuse the England set-up of trying to change his action. Former England batsman Frank Hayes, who coached Broad at Oakham School, says: "With England his action was changed so that he was told to bowl chest on.

"It is only now he is getting back to what he was a couple of years ago and he is swinging the ball again.

"He actually lost his ability to swing it."

Broad now works with Ottis Gibson, an old Leicestershire colleague, in the England camp.

Broad is the only international whose on-field performances are scrutinised by a father – former Notts and England opener Chris – who is an ICC match referee.

"He knows all the ins-and-outs about cricket so, if I don't turn round for an appeal, he straight away asks why," said Broad.

The October issue of The Wisden Cricketer, the world's best-selling cricket monthly, is on sale at leading outlets from Friday, September 12.