A look back at the career of Englands greatest-ever bowler, James Anderson, ahead of his final Test match, at Lords.
James Anderson. What more can really be said or written about him which has not be said or written before?
The acclaim, the praise, the gushing tributes to Anderson will all come out again in what is sure to be an emotional match – and rightly so.As far as cricket goes, the James Anderson story begins at Turf Moor, the home of Burnley Cricket Club which sits behind the away stand of the football ground which bears the same name.
At just 17, he was already regarded as one of the fastest bowlers in the Lancashire League. The following year, he claimed his first List-A scalp, having Suffolk opener Russell Catley caught for just three in a NatWest Trophy first-round match for Lancashire Cricket Board in which he returned figures of 1-34 from 10 over - including two maidens.
It is the match in which Anderson, with just three List-A games for Lancashire to his name at this point, is thrust into his international debut as well. A week later, he was running riot for England against a hapless Zimbabwe team at Lord's. Mark Vermeulen became the first of 700 and counting Test wickets, and he finished with figures of 5-73 as the tourists were bundled out for 147 and went on to suffer an innings and 92-run defeat.
He was subsequently rested for England's tour to Bangladesh and spent much of the next two years in and out of the team, missing the entirety of the 2005 Ashes series when Michael Vaughan's side ended Australia's stranglehold on the rivalry. When bowling in tandem at their best, the duo were near-on unplayable for batting line-ups the world over, tormented by Anderson's mastery of seam and swing, and Broad's snorting, pugnacious approach.
His 200th wicket came as he snared Peter Siddle during the 2010/11 series in Australia which saw England seal a 3-1 victory, and in 2013 he became just the fourth English bowler to reach the 300 mark when New Zealand's Peter Fulton edged him to the slips. Fittingly, that came at Lord's as well. Yet there was still an outpouring of praise for the right-armer, with his Lancashire head coach and former team-mate Glen Chapple among those hailing his achievement.He's got an amazing talent, but it's the work ethic, dedication and discipline he's shown to stay at the top for so long," Chapple said.
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