James Anderson is back to tormenting batters but this time not with the red ball but white. The England pace-bowling legend turned up for his home county of Lancashire on Sunday in what was his first T20 outing since 2014 and picked up three wickets.
Lancashire were up against Durham in the ongoing T20 Blast, England and Wales Cricket Board premier domestic 20-over competition, on Sunday. The cricketing world's attention to this game shifted as soon as it was revealed that Anderson has been named in the Playing XI for Lancashire.
The 42-year-old paceman known for his exemplary swing bowling had last played a T20 game 3935 days ago in 2014. That was a game between Lancashire and Warwickshire in T20 Blast 2014.
On his T20 return, Anderson was up against the Durham batting line-up. As expected, the legend, who is the highest wicket-taker among pacers in Test cricket, took the shining new white ball. And just as expected, he started taking wickets.
In his very first over, the swing bowler troubled the Durrham openers and gave away just three runs. In his second, the legend got the wicket of opposition opener G Clarke. He was handed one more over in the powerplay and the pacer brought one more wicket as he dismissed AZ Lees in the third over of the spell.
Anderson would get one more wicket later in his last over to finish with three wickets for 17 runs in four overs.
Interestingly, Anderson, who retired from Test cricket as one of the greats of the game just about a year back, had also put his name for the 온라인카지노 Premier League auction ahead of the 2025 season. However, he was not shortlisted for the final list and thus could not feature in the auction.
