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BBC News
15 hours ago
- Sport
- BBC News
Test Match Special England v India: Anderson-Tendulkar trophy honours contest
Elly Oldroyd is alongside former India wicketkeeper Deep Dasgupta, England Ashes winner Steven Finn, commentator Isa Guha, and BBC Chief Cricket Reporter Stephan Shemilt to look ahead to England's first Test against India at Headingley. What are captain Ben Stokes' thoughts ahead of the match? How will Shubman Gill prepare for his first Test series as captain of India? And what are Jimmy Anderson & Sachin Tendulkar's thoughts on the new trophy honouring them?
The Guardian
3 days ago
- Sport
- The Guardian
Tendulkar v Anderson: two master craftsmen who gave more than anyone to Test cricket
Spring 2006 and India are batting against England at the Wankhede in Mumbai. The series is all square, one Test each with one to play. England, batting first, have made an even 400, thanks in large part to a century by Andrew Strauss and 88 from his Middlesex teammate Owais Shah, who is making his debut. It is just past tea on the second day and India's openers are already gone, bounced out by Matthew Hoggard. Sachin Tendulkar is at No 4 and England's captain, Andrew Flintoff, has just thrown the ball to his first-change bowler, Jimmy Anderson. Anderson is 23. He has already played 12 Tests; the last of them was 14 months earlier, against South Africa in Johannesburg, the other side of the 2005 Ashes, which he spent carrying drinks. It was, he told me last month, 'a hard time' in his life. England's coaches had been trying to rebuild his action and he had been sent on an England A Tour of the West Indies to work on it. He was only playing in India because Simon Jones had gone home, injured. Now here he is, ball in hand, with Tendulkar, who Anderson grew up watching on TV, waiting at the other end and the series in the balance. Coming up on two decades later, the BCCI and ECB have renamed the Pataudi Trophy for the two of them. Some people are upset they are so quick to overwrite the game's history. Iftikhar Ali Khan Paaudi was the only man to play for England and India; his son, Mansoor Ali Khan, played for Oxford University and Sussex and went on to become one of India's best captains after being given the job when he was 21. The decision to get rid of the Pataudi family name was quick, and careless, but we can at least be glad they chose Anderson and Tendulkar. They first played against each other in a World Cup, in Durban in 2003, but this match, in 2006, was the first time that they had squared off in a Test. Anderson's first ball slid down the leg side, his second was blocked to cover, his third thumped straight to point, his fourth went straight through to 'keeper Geraint Jones, his fifth was dropped down by Tendulkar's feet, his sixth was driven to gully, and his seventh, well, his seventh was the one that got him. It was short, and wide, and Tendulkar, who had scored one off 21 balls, decided he needed to punish it. He leaned back in his crease and flicked his bat out to punch the ball through cover. But the ball had been moving away from him all the while and it flew, instead, off his outside edge through to Jones. Tendulkar c Jones b Anderson 1. The moment is best remembered because as Tendulkar was walking off a group of home fans booed him. Anderson finished with four for 40 in the innings and England would go on to win the match and the series. It gets forgotten among all the happy memories of what they did in the 2005 Ashes, but their head coach, Duncan Fletcher, always said it was one of their finest victories. Sign up to The Spin Subscribe to our cricket newsletter for our writers' thoughts on the biggest stories and a review of the week's action after newsletter promotion Anderson would take Tendulkar's wicket eight more times in 13 Tests. By the time Tendulkar retired in 2013, he had got out to Anderson more often than he had any other bowler. Often as not, Anderson would have him caught behind or do him lbw. It was as if he had found a crack in Tendulkar's batting and he played on it, pitilessly. Tendulkar would say Anderson was the first bowler he had faced who seemed to be able to bowl a reversed version of reverse swing. There is a video, when Tendulkar explains it to Brian Lara, full of nerdy enthusiasm for Anderson's technical ability. It is one master craftsman appreciating another. They were two greats passing each other on the slope of their careers, Anderson was at the end of the beginning, Tendulkar the beginning of the end. While age gave the compensation of experience it was not enough to cover for what he had lost along the way. Tendulkar scored one century against England while Anderson was playing, although it was one of his best, and most famous, in the fourth innings at Chennai in 2008, when India made 387 to win a game that had been trailing for three days. But their records against each other are not the point. They are the two most-capped Test players. Tendulkar played 200 games, Anderson 188, and their careers spanned almost a quarter of the history of Test cricket, 35 years from Tendulkar's first match in 1989 to Anderson's last in 2024. It is hard to think of two men who gave more to Test cricket.
Daily Mail
6 days ago
- Sport
- Daily Mail
See the savage sledge from the Marsh brothers aimed at decorated England quick Jimmy Anderson as well as Ashes villain Stuart Broad
Mitchell Marsh is currently on the outer when it comes to the Australian Test team - but it didn't stop the all-rounder from uttering a savage sledge about retired English paceman Jimmy Anderson. Marsh, 33, spoke to the North Melbourne playing group this week ahead of their AFL 'home' clash against Fremantle on Saturday night at Optus Stadium - and 'Bison' couldn't resist having a playful dig at Anderson, who has 704 Test wickets to his name. 'In your career, who was one bowler you found easy to get away,' one of the Kangaroos stars asked Marsh. Marsh's response was brutal: ' James he played in Australia, he was pedestrian.' He then quickly realised he was on camera, with Marsh hilariously backtracking. 'Sorry I didn't mean that,' he sheepishly said. Marsh then referenced Anderson's '600 wickets' - and then it was older brother Shaun's turn to liven up the room. 'I'll say Stuart Broad,' he quipped. Ashes villain Broad was also a noted performer at Test level, snaring 604 wickets in his career. The paceman - who never hid his dislike for Australia's stars in his playing days - clearly hasn't changed since hanging up his spikes in 2023. This week he acted as a consultant for South Africa in the lead up to the World Test Championship final against Pat Cummins' men. Broad revealed how he aimed to help the Proteas pace attack at Lord's. 'I certainly won't be going in and talking about individuals' actions before one of the biggest games of their careers,' he said. 'It's very much about the tactics of that particular ground and the nuances which that slope brings. A lot of overseas bowlers can sometimes take a spell to get used to playing there.' It seems to have worked - South Africa need just 69 runs - with eight wickets in hand - to win the final. Play resumes from 7.30pm AEST on Saturday, with the Proteas chasing their first ICC trophy in 27 years.
BBC News
7 days ago
- Sport
- BBC News
T20 Blast: Anderson helps Lancs close on Northants
Runaway T20 Blast North Group leaders Northamptonshire suffered their first defeat of the season as Lancashire narrowed the gap at the top on Friday table-topping Steelbacks were edged out by 15 runs at home to Durham with Kiwi all-rounder Jimmy Neesham hitting an unbeaten half-century for the visitors before picking up 3-29 with the Jimmy Anderson claimed three wickets as second-placed Lancashire thumped Worcestershire by seven wickets at New Bears overcame Yorkshire by 32 runs at Headingley for their fourth successive win and seventh straight against the White Patel returned to haunt Notts, taking 3-14 as Derbyshire picked up their first win of the campaign with a 46-run thumping at Trent Group leaders Somerset made it five wins from five with a six-wicket derby victory at Gloucestershire to avenge last season's defeat in the final with Lewis Goldsworthy claiming a career-best 4-13 as the defending champions remain Middlesex snatched a last-ball tie against Hampshire in a rain-shortened six-over slog at Southampton while Essex were denied the chance of a first Blast win of the summer as their clash at Sussex was night's scorecards North Group leaders Northants saw their perfect start ended by Durham as Neesham made an unbeaten 50 from 34 balls batting at seven against his former club, though his new side were restricted to a modest Steelbacks were 96-3 in reply after 13 overs, with Matthew Breetzke making 41 but they added 46 runs for the loss of five wickets from the final seven as third-placed Durham closed the gap on the leaders to 12 points with two games in are eight points behind Northants in second after a convincing win at Worcestershire, having bowled the hosts out for Gareth Roderick (35 from 28 balls) resisted for long as the innings failed to recover from early damage inflicted by Anderson (3-32) and Luke Wood (3-34) with the Rapids slumping to 46-5 as early as the seventh Lightning reeled in the target with 15 balls to spare, with Keaton Jennings making 42 while Liam Livingstone finished off the chase with 41 not out from 22 balls including four monster Headingley, all-rounder Ed Barnard's 67 from 40 balls was the cornerstone of Bears' 205-8 before some late fireworks from George Garton, Hasan Ali and Danny Briggs saw 76 added in the final five dropped Yorkshire skipper Dawid Malan in the deep off Briggs on 29 but the spinner eventually got his man for 65 - and Malan's fourth straight half-century was in vain as the White Rose lost for the fourth time in six games, closing on spinner Patel inspired Derbyshire Falcons to their first Blast victory at Trent Bridge since 2013 and consigned Notts to a third straight home defeat as they finished on 153-9 chasing a target of Aneurin Donald's 73 off 34 balls, including five sixes, gave the Falcons a platform before Brooke Guest (37no) and Ross Whiteley (35no) added an unbroken sixth-wicket partnership of 65 off 33 balls to finish on 199-5. In South Group, Gloucestershire posted a disappointing 135-7 at Bristol, skipper Jack Taylor top-scoring with 43 not out from 29 balls and Goldsworthy taking three wickets in an Smeed scored 51 not out as Somerset triumphed on 137-4 with 14 balls to spare to move six points ahead of nearest rivals Hampshire and Lhuan-dre Pretorius made 44 from 22 balls as Hampshire's innings was restricted to six overs by the weather, closing at a DLS target of 76 to win from six overs, Chris Wood sent down a maiden to start the Middlesex reply but Max Holden clobbered 38 from 18 balls before Ben Geddes hit 10 from the final five deliveries, scampering a single to ensure a hopes of claiming their first win were thwarted by the rain when they were well on top against Sussex at a game reduced to 17 overs per side, Jordan Cox hit four successive sixes off spinner Jack Carson in a 47-ball 82 in an imposing total of Snater then took three wickets before conceding a run as Sussex slumped to 23-3 after 3.1 overs when the rain returned. Saturday's fixtures North GroupDerbyshire v Leicestershire (15:00 BST)Bears v Nottinghamshire (19:00 BST)South GroupGlamorgan v Sussex (18:30 BST)
Times
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
Pat Cummins and Kagiso Rabada trade blows as bowlers dominate WTC final
In the build-up to the World Test Championship final, Pat Cummins's pre-match press conference took an unusual turn. 'Pat,' came the question from the floor. 'Jimmy Anderson was here yesterday watching you guys train, and he said that he rated [Kagiso] Rabada over you. I just wondered what your response to that might be?' 'Cool, no worries,' Cummins said. He was smiling, but somewhat coldly, in the fashion of Robert De Niro in The Untouchables, walking around the table of his 'frenemies' swinging his baseball bat in anticipation. On the second day, Australia's captain offered a more substantial but, in the fashion of De Niro, just as brutal a retort to that question, besting Rabada's five wickets with six, more cheaply, of his own.
