England won the match and now witnessing the last stages of an international career James Anderson, one of the authors of Test cricket’s history as a fast-beater. After beginning his international cricket in December 2002, Anderson has since gone on to become the quickest bowler in International cricket.
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This feeding of the ball as he positioned himself to set up batters has gone down in the annals of cricket history as he piled up wicket after wicket – and continues unchecked, 990 across all forms of the game and heading towards a thousand. While playing Anderson has bowled to some of the best players in the world, but he himself consider the legendary Indian player Sachin Tendulkar the best he has ever bowled to. In an interview with Sky Sports we get, “The best batter I would have to say is Sachin Tendulkar,” Anderson said.
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In total, Anderson has dismissed Tendulkar 12 times out of which 9 were in the Test cricket and 3 in the ODI cricket. And he mentions there was not much of a definite strategy against his great competitor, but the same cannot be said about not delivering a bad ball.
“I don’t remember having a specific game plan against Sachin Tendulkar. Once he came on, I would just think that I cannot bowl a bad ball here, he was that kind of player,” Anderson said.
“He was a key for India as well. If you get him out in India, the whole atmosphere, in the ground changes. He was such a big wicket,” Anderson he added.
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Tendulkar has scored a mountain of runs against England in Test cricket – 2,535 runs in 32 Test matches @ 51. 73 including 7 hundreds, 13 half-centuries and the rest. Anderson said that he always planned to get him (Tendulkar) out LBW as early as possible in the innings.
“You just try on bowling your best ball, top of off-stump, the whole time and hope he miss a straight one. In England, he might nick the odd one, but generally, I’d try and get him out LBW early. I had some success against him, but he had success against me as well. He got runs against us quite a lot,” Anderson said.
During Anderson’s last Test match, he appeared rather emotional for the fact that his parent run the bell at the historic Lord’s. Before the beginning of the event, the pacer stated that his main concern is on the sports performance and not crying.