PATRICK KIDD

Anderson Is playIng the long game

TWENTY YEARS AGO THIS MAY, George W Bush had just declared “mission accomplished” in Iraq, Rishi Sunak was a 23-year-old analyst at Goldman Sachs, the European Union had only 15 member states and Netflix was a DVD mail-order business. And a whippet-thin fast bowler with peroxide-tipped spiky hair took his first three wickets in Test cricket by hitting middle stump each time. Not bad for a lad who was playing club cricket for Burnley the previous summer (though the manner of those dismissals may say something about the defensive skills of Zimbabwe’s batsmen as much as JAMES ANDERSON’s ability to swing the ball). His first innings at Lord’s, which began with a disastrous over costing 17 runs, ended with him knocking Douglas Hondo’s off stump out of the ground. Five wickets…

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