We all know James Anderson as one of the most famous pacer or fast bowler of the cricket world. His nickname or we can say the short name is Jimmy. He is from England and currently serving as a fast bowler for England team. There is no doubt, he has a lot of skill and expertise in cricket. With the help of those expertise, James Anderson is about to achieve an incredible achievement.
As you know the top three highest wicket-takers in test cricket are spin bowlers. Murlidharan is highest wicket taker in test cricket format. After that Shane Warne. On third position Anil Kumble. Thus we can see the top three positions acquired by the spinner. Glenn Macgrath is fourth highest wicket-taker in test cricket. He was a fast bowler. He has taken retirement now. Glenn Mactgrath is the highest wicket taker in test cricket whose specialty was fast bowling.
Now the fifth position has been acquired by Anderson in this list. Anderson does not far from breaking the record of Macgrath. Anderson has notched up total 557 wickets. Macgrath total is 563. So now , Anderson has need of only 7 wickets to overtake.
Glenn McGrath recently said that if Anderson overtook me then barely anyone can beat him in future. Glenn Macgrath statements-
"Records are nice and I've been very proud to have taken more wickets than any fast bowler in Test history, but any high is there to be beaten and I will be equally proud of Jimmy when he goes past me because the fast bowlers' union has to stick together, whichever country we come from,"
"It is only a matter of time now before he gets there and I will be getting in touch with him as soon as he does to say well done. I have an awful lot of respect for Jimmy. Good luck to him. I believe once he goes past me he will never be beaten,"
The specialty of Anderson-
Anderson is right-arm- medium fast bowlers. He is a left-hand batsman. Anderson can bowl both types, in swing and out swing. Doing inswing and outswing is not his specialty. Actually, he can bowl both types without changing any action of bowling. The batsman face problem in this situation because he could not decide which type of bowl will come at the present time. This is specialty of Anderson.
Anderson has a lot of other collection of specialty and expertise which he used to give trouble for the batsman. He is the only pacer who has bowled the highest number of the bowl in test cricket. Total 31065 deliveries by him in test cricket till today.
Anderson has a chance to become first highest wicket taker of test cricket by a fast bowler in coming match. The coming match will against India. Which is the fourth test match of series.
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