Well done James Anderson

[Cricketics]

300 wickets. Lot of hardwork there. I still remember when he first came. Been the bowler I always liked along with Steyn, has become my favorite bowler. Big achievement this.

[G_B_]

congrats to the man for Lancs...

[bulbul]

:hatsoff: Always remember the yorker with which he bowled Yusuf yohana in 2003 WC.

[Dhoni_fan]

Not in the same league as Steyn but a plucky bowler none the less

[Fontaine]

meh, BFD. Overcast conditions, grassy pitches makes even shoom lala's look good with the new ball.

[rkt.india]

He is an underachiever, IMO.

[Junyfan]

Congratulations to James Anderson,Great achievement.

[Number]

got to admire his fitness.

[Clarke]

Good to see him perform to his potential in the last few years, definitely #2 among the current quicks alongside maybe Philly.

[Zelig]

Hate his character but a top bowler :hatsoff:

[Sachin=GOD]

A decade of Anderson

In 2003, Nasser Hussain tossed the ball to his debutant opening bowler with the quirky action and was rewarded with five Zimbabwean wickets. The Burnley Express showed that his meteoric rise from league cricket to Test cricket, via a surprise call-up for three Australian ODIs and the World Cup in South Africa, was no flash in the pan. As Father Time looked down at Lord’s on Saturday, almost exactly a decade after witnessing that spectacular start, Jimmy Anderson again led his teammates from the field having bagged a five-wicket haul, this time with the added distinction of becoming only the fourth Englishman to reach 300 Test wickets. It’s tempting to imagine that the intervening period was characterised by consistent achievement, benefiting from the England selectors’ willingness to pick players and back them – but the reality is rather different. Anderson isn’t the first young opening bowler to have had a stop-start beginning to their Test career, but the usual suspects – loss of form, injuries, getting worked out by the analysts – are largely blameless in his case. The England coaching set-up, specifically Troy Cooley, the bowling guru whose alchemy had presented the gift of reverse swing to the Fab Four (Stephen Harmison, Andrew Flintoff, Matthew Hoggard and Simon Jones) – who in turn delivered the Holy Grail of The Ashes in 2005 – decided that Anderson’s head-down, splay-footed delivery stride wouldn’t do. In the laudable attempt to protect him from injury, the baby went out with the bathwater. Anderson played just 12 Tests, taking 36 wickets, in four years before his return to the side in 2008. Even with the old action largely restored, things ran less than smoothly. Always quiet to the point of silence, according to Michael Atherton, Anderson became more aggressive in his body language, offered the occasional sledge that jarred a little with his still-choirboy looks and was seemingly happy to be seen as “Attack Leader”. It didn’t sit well with the English approach to the game. But beneath the posturing that seems obligatory for seamers these days, a quieter transformation was taking place. Through subtle changes of wrist position, thumb pressure and point of delivery, Anderson became not just a purveyor of swing, but a master of cricket’s most ephemeral art, the best technician in the game now Mohammad Asif’s career is over. Like Shane Warne, he let it be known that he had developed a mystery delivery – the “wobble ball” – that might just be a straight one. He was skilled enough for people to believe him. For the last six years, he has consistently paid less than 30 runs per wicket and seldom gone for more than three runs per over, obeying England’s mantra to “bowl dry” and build pressure. Equally importantly, he seldom misses a match through injury, nor does he often appear undercooked – though not quick, the ball never floats down to the batsman. When conditions favour swing, he booms the ball across the left-hander and can bring the odd one back in; when conditions make it impossible for others to get the ball off line, he still moves it that McGrath-like half a bat’s width, working out a method that works anywhere in the world. When England fans talk of record-breaking, it’s usually Alastair Cook whose name is mentioned. But Anderson, already England’s leading wicket-taker counting all formats, is not yet 31 years old, as fit as ever, and possesses as many skills as any bowler in world cricket. He also has the hunger and humility required to learn more. Given a fair wind, he will own most of England’s bowling records before he finishes, not that such individual achievement will be celebrated within Andy Flower’s Team England culture, tightly focussed on winning series and regaining the No.1 ranking in Test cricket. If taking 20 wickets is integral to winning Test matches, the key to winning series on the relentless treadmill of international cricket is a coterie of battle-hardened seam bowlers who can come in and do a job in all conditions. In Stuart Broad, Steven Finn, Tim Bresnan and Graeme Onions, England have a squad of experienced men in their late 20s and early 30s who know how to take wickets in Test matches. Behind them, Stuart Meaker, Chris Woakes and Toby Roland-Jones wait in the wings for their chance. But in front of them all, the jewel in the crown is Anderson, undoubtedly the leader of the pack.

http://www.wisdenindia.com/cricket-article/decade-anderson/62909

[velu]

[Crookbond]

Anderson's new book titled - On Cloud Nine

[maniac]

Vastly improved bowler....good in all conditions now :hatsoff:....

[Clarke]

Well done James Anderson, leading wicket taker for England. Should manage to get into top 10 of all time by retirement, which is quite an achievement.

[G_B_]

well done JA He is not an all time great but certainly one of the leader bowlers of his era. As i have mentioned before its not just the number of wickets, its the number of overs he bowls and restricts the scoring at the same time. Says a lot about the rest of the English attach that they could not win. Yes it was flat but Treadwell etc just did not have the guile to prize the wickets out.

[BlueBee]

Well done Jimmy ! :two_thumbs_up:

[CG]

well done JA He is not an all time great but certainly one of the leader bowlers of his era. As i have mentioned before its not just the number of wickets, its the number of overs he bowls and restricts the scoring at the same time. Says a lot about the rest of the English attach that they could not win. Yes it was flat but Treadwell etc just did not have the guile to prize the wickets out.

You need raw pace on rgese attacks which English lacks.

[govinda]

couldy:hysterical:

[SLICKR392]

Congrats!! :hatsoff: Love watching him bowl.