James Anderson reaches 1,000 first-class wickets with career-best 7/19

James Anderson on Monday reached a outstanding milestone in his profession as he scalped his 1,000th first-class wicket throughout Lancashire’s County Championship match in opposition to Kent on the Old Trafford Stadium.
The 38-year-old, who’s already probably the most prolific pacer within the historical past of Test cricket with 617 wickets, picked up his landmark wicket when he dismissed Heino Kuhn with a caught behind by wicketkeeper Dane Vilas.

WICKET WATCH – Wicket #1,000 for @jimmy9 pic.twitter.com/We91Q8tGGa
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With that wicket, he additionally accomplished his 51st first-class five-wicket haul. Two extra wickets adopted quickly after as Anderson claimed career-best figures of seven/19 after 10 overs of trademark swing bowling for Lancashire.
After his magnificent spell of bowling, Anderson turned the primary man to achieve 1,000 first-class wickets having begun his profession for the reason that flip of the century and the 216th total. He made his first-class debut for Lancashire in 2002.
He turned simply the 14th participant to achieve 1,000 first-class wickets this century and simply the fifth seamer after Andy Caddick (in 2005), Martin Bicknell (in 2004), Devon Malcolm (in 2002), and Wasim Akram (in 2001).

WATCH: All seven of @jimmy9‘s wickets @EmiratesOT this afternoon! 👏
An absolute exhibition. 😍
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No different participant has extra first-class wickets than Anderson since his debut in May 2002. Tim Murtagh’s 856 wickets are the second-most by any participant on this interval.
Anderson additionally elevated his tally of first-class wickets at his house floor of Old Trafford to 167 on Monday. His maiden wicket, one centesimal wicket, 2 hundredth wicket, 700th wicket, and one thousandth wicket in first-class cricket all got here at Old Trafford.