CREAKY BLINDER
Daily Mirror UK|August 16, 2022
There won’t be another 40-year-old Test bowler says Anderson... no one else is stupid enough!
DEAN WILSON
CREAKY BLINDER

JAMES ANDERSON believes there will never be another fast bowler to follow in his and Stuart Broad’s path.

Les Jackson was the last 40-year-old seamer to take a Test wicket for England in 1961, but Anderson will open the bowling in a Test match at 40, still at the pinnacle of the game.

It will be his 173rd Test and, coming fully six weeks after his last match, it will hurt, because Test matches do, especially for fast bowlers. He can expect to bowl about 40 overs at Lord’s, a significant increase on the four overs per game for a T20. But there is nowhere he would rather be.

This story is from the August 16, 2022 edition of Daily Mirror UK.

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