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The legendary England pacer James Anderson has added one more feather to his illustrious cap of achievements in the great game of cricket. The Lancashire-based bowling great scalped his 1100th First-Class wicket in the ongoing first of the five-match Tests of The Ashes 2023 against England. Anderson completed his 1100 wickets in First-Class cricket in his 289th First-Class match.
The 40-year-old bowling great achieved this feat in his career when he scalped the wicket of Australian wicketkeeper-batter Alex Carey in the first innings of Australia during the ongoing Birmingham Test.
Subsequently, the cricket fans are also elated and overjoyed following this amazing achievement of James Anderson even at the age of 40 years. They immediately took to the micro-blogging site Twitter and lavished praise on Jimmy Anderson for his amazing heroic journey in red-ball cricket.
Here’s how fans reacted as James Anderson scalps his 1100th wicket in First-Class cricket:
ye buddha mere beech me boht wickets leta hai
— retired ICT fan (@anubhav__tweets) June 18, 2023
I can't see him retiring in next 2-3 yrs
— Vikas (@Vik4660) June 18, 2023
Goat of cricket not only England
— peer haseeb (@haseebpeer6) June 18, 2023
He is taking wickets at this age, bumrah should learn fitness from him.
— Yadav ↗️ (@Significant77y) June 18, 2023
Finally Jimmy🔥💥🥹🫠 pic.twitter.com/nprClPeG3k
— shareef_717💫 (@Shareef48519390) June 18, 2023
— Dean McShane (@deanmcshane123) June 18, 2023
Legend!
— Judith Burr (@BurrJudith) June 18, 2023
It’s just incredible his career
— Daniel Tudge (@DanJTudge) June 18, 2023
There will be no better test bowler thn him absolutely goat 🐐
— Oxygen O2 (@OxygenO21916690) June 18, 2023
Oh Jimmy Jimmy! 🏏
— Wordit Football News (@WorditNews) June 18, 2023
Speaking of the ongoing action of the first Ashes Test between England and Australia, Australia are now just 22 runs behind England’s first-innings score of 393 runs for the loss of eight wickets. Australia have scored 372 runs for the loss of six wickets in 111.2 overs owing to the brilliant century smashed by Usman Khawaja in the first innings.
At the time of filling this copy, Usman Khawaja and skipper Pat Cummins are there in the middle on the individual scores of 141 and 27 runs respectively.
Stuart Broad and Moeen Ali have scalped two wickets each for England in the first innings alongside one wicket each claimed by James Anderson and skipper Ben Stokes.
Earlier, in the first innings for England, the former skipper and batting superstar Joe Root smashed a crucial century scoring 118 runs to help England post a decent total in the first innings.
Other than Root, wicketkeeper-batter Jonny Bairstow and opener Zak Crawley also scored 78 and 61 runs respectively for England.