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Jimmy Anderson

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500 wickets

What a bowler, what a man

I know I'm soft as shite, but I felt slightly emotional watching him interviewed after, Nasser spoke well, maybe just my age, but watched this lad bowl every game since I personally was 13/14, cricket not the most popular sport to watch, but he's played every test match I've ever been too. And he still runs himself into the ground,

We are all big cricket fans on here but not everyone is, but I still think the first thing that happens when he retires is knighthood.

It's always worth watching his interview after the SL defeat to show what playing for England means

What a talent though, you combine that with hard work and dedication you get 500 wickets
 

And he loves playing for his county too so hopefully we'll see him post-England playing v Durham.
 
Apart from being a fantastic bowler what also set him slightly apart is his athleticism in the field, especially at his age and having bowled all the overs he has. No captain has ever had to hide him when fielding down at long leg, he can run and dive and catch - yesterday was a case in point when he had just finished an over and fielded at 4th slip, the batsman nicked and he took a great catch diving to his left across 3rd slip.
 
Bri said:
Apart from being a fantastic bowler what also set him slightly apart is his athleticism in the field, especially at his age and having bowled all the overs he has. No captain has ever had to hide him when fielding down at long leg, he can run and dive and catch - yesterday was a case in point when he had just finished an over and fielded at 4th slip, the batsman nicked and he took a great catch diving to his left across 3rd slip.
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was a good catch that one like.

I have no idea what he is like personally or what he does charitably but talk of a knighthood seems ludicrious to me, maybe that's just me.
 
DaveAngel said:
500 wickets

What a bowler, what a man

I know I'm soft as shite, but I felt slightly emotional watching him interviewed after, Nasser spoke well, maybe just my age, but watched this lad bowl every game since I personally was 13/14, cricket not the most popular sport to watch, but he's played every test match I've ever been too. And he still runs himself into the ground,

We are all big cricket fans on here but not everyone is, but I still think the first thing that happens when he retires is knighthood.

It's always worth watching his interview after the SL defeat to show what playing for England means

What a talent though, you combine that with hard work and dedication you get 500 wickets
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Hes amazing. If he had better advice and guidance in his early test career instead of people trying to remodel his action his record would have been even more phenomenal. I seem to recall he averaged something like 35 or 36 after 30 tests. Since the WI tour of 2009 he has averaged 24 which is astonishing.
 
Twisted said:
and if you asked me whether they deserved knighthoods guess what the answer would be?
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Knighthoods are a load of shite anyway. I won't be getting my knickers in a twist regardless of who gets one.

Jimmy Anderson getting one is par for the course.
 
dixonsafc said:
Knighthoods are a load of shite anyway. I won't be getting my knickers in a twist regardless of who gets one.

Jimmy Anderson getting one is par for the course.
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I agree they're a load of shite, people getting them for being good at sport, for which they are hugely well rewarded anyway, is the reason they're a load of shite imo

edit: plus loads of other people who don't deserve them, not just sport.. but especially when they're in professions where they end up with loads of money and adulation anyhow
 
The most Lancastrian man who ever lived.

rentaghost said:
Hes amazing. If he had better advice and guidance in his early test career instead of people trying to remodel his action his record would have been even more phenomenal. I seem to recall he averaged something like 35 or 36 after 30 tests. Since the WI tour of 2009 he has averaged 24 which is astonishing.
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That is slightly off the mark. He remodeled his action as his back kept giving out and to be fair, since his return he's had 7/8 years pretty much injury free and became the number 1 bowler in the world. And remember, before his stress fracture he was hit and miss and wasn't even a automatic pick to make the side.
 
Steak Pie said:
The most Lancastrian man who ever lived.



That is slightly off the mark. He remodeled his action as his back kept giving out and to be fair, since his return he's had 7/8 years pretty much injury free and became the number 1 bowler in the world. And remember, before his stress fracture he was hit and miss and wasn't even a automatic pick to make the side.
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It's true that Anderson's early bowling action wasn't sustainable or repetitive and needed to e remodeled however (according to Mike Watkinson) Troy Cooley's drastic advice on remodeling his action caused a stress fracture. The advice he was given initially was poor and held him back a long way. The advice he was given from Kevin Shine and Watkinson himself was a lot more subtle and didn't change as many fundementals. If you look at Anderson now he is still looking at the floor after he bowls which is what many were trying to get rid of early on.
 
rentaghost said:
It's true that Anderson's early bowling action wasn't sustainable or repetitive and needed to e remodeled however (according to Mike Watkinson) Troy Cooley's drastic advice on remodeling his action caused a stress fracture. The advice he was given initially was poor and held him back a long way. The advice he was given from Kevin Shine and Watkinson himself was a lot more subtle and didn't change as many fundementals. If you look at Anderson now he is still looking at the floor after he bowls which is what many were trying to get rid of early on.
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But does one not lead to another? The work done under Cooley with his front arm, then the stuff back at Lancs all lead to where we were in 2009/10 with a smooth action that's held up for years. I suppose we'll never know.

Wasn't it Cooley who shortened his run up, I can't remember?
 
Career best 7-42 completed today. Had a hand in all but 2 of the WI dismissals. Absolute legend.
 
Hadlee got one either just after he retired or at the fag end of his career. Not sure what he did other than be one of the great cricketers of his generation. May be doing him a disservice mind.
 
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