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James Anderson

James Anderson

England·Bowler

England's greatest fast bowler and a prolific sledger whose running battle with Kohli defined the 2014 India-England series.

13 incidents documented

Controversies & Incidents

🔥Moderate

Jadeja-Anderson 'Pushgate' at Trent Bridge

England vs India

12 July 2014

An alleged physical altercation between Ravindra Jadeja and James Anderson in the players' tunnel at Trent Bridge led to charges, counter-charges, and a messy ICC hearing that satisfied nobody.

#jadeja#anderson#pushgate
🥊Serious

Virat Kohli vs James Anderson — 2014 Test Series

England vs India

17 July 2014

Virat Kohli and James Anderson had intense verbal exchanges throughout the 2014 series in England, with Kohli accusing Anderson of being abusive and disrespectful.

#kohli#anderson#lord's
🥊Serious

James Anderson vs Ravindra Jadeja — Trent Bridge Corridor Incident

England vs India

13 July 2014

James Anderson allegedly pushed Ravindra Jadeja in the players' corridor at Trent Bridge during the 2014 Test series, leading to ICC charges and hearings.

#anderson#jadeja#corridor
🥊Moderate

Brad Haddin vs James Anderson — Ashes 2013-14

Australia vs England

6 December 2013

Brad Haddin engaged in sustained verbal abuse of James Anderson throughout the 2013-14 Ashes, reducing Anderson to tears according to some reports.

#haddin#anderson#sledging
😂Mild

James Anderson Throws His Bat in Frustration — Then Gets Out

Australia vs England

2013-12-08

James Anderson, cricket's most lethal number 11 batsman, produced various comedy batting moments throughout his career, including frustrated bat throws and bizarre dismissals.

#james-anderson#bat-throw#frustration
🏏Serious

England Survive at Cardiff — Ashes 2009

England vs Australia

8-12 July 2009

England survived the final session with last pair James Anderson and Monty Panesar at the crease. Australia were convinced they had Anderson LBW but the appeal was turned down.

#ashes#cardiff#last wicket
Serious

Brian Lara's 501 Not Out — Warwickshire vs Durham, June 1994

Warwickshire vs Durham

1994-06-06

Just seven weeks after his Test world-record 375, Brian Lara scored an unbeaten 501 for Warwickshire against Durham at Edgbaston, breaking Hanif Mohammad's 499 from 1959 to register the highest individual score in first-class history. The innings came off only 427 balls and contained 62 fours and 10 sixes.

#brian-lara#warwickshire#durham
Serious

South Africa's First Test Back — Bridgetown, April 1992

West Indies vs South Africa

1992-04-18

On April 18-23, 1992, South Africa played their first Test match in 22 years — against the West Indies in Bridgetown. They lost by 52 runs after collapsing from 122/2 to 148 all out chasing 201. Curtly Ambrose took 6/34 in the second innings; Barbadian fans largely boycotted the game in protest at Anderson Cummins' omission.

#south-africa#west-indies#barbados
Mild

Maurice Tate's Reinvention — Off-Spinner to Fast-Medium, 1923

Sussex and England

1923-09-15

Through 1922 and 1923, on the advice of his Sussex captain Arthur Gilligan, the 28-year-old off-spinner Maurice Tate switched to fast-medium swing bowling. The change produced 219 wickets in 1923, his Test debut against South Africa at Edgbaston in 1924, and the bowling career that became the model for the English fast-medium swing tradition.

#maurice-tate#sussex#england
Mild

W.G. Grace's First-Class Debut — Gentlemen v Players of the South, June 1865

Gentlemen of the South vs Players of the South

1865-06-22

On 22 June 1865, sixteen days short of his seventeenth birthday, William Gilbert Grace played his first first-class match. Picked by the Gentlemen of the South against the Players of the South at the Oval mainly for his bowling, he and I.D. Walker bowled unchanged through both Players innings. Grace took 13 wickets in the match. Although the Players won by 118 runs, the cricket world had its first sight of the man who would dominate the sport for the next thirty years.

#wg-grace#first-class-debut#1865
🏏Serious

Edgar Willsher No-Balled Six Times — The Walk-Off That Legalised Overarm, 1862

England XI vs Surrey

1862-08-26

Bowling for an England XI against Surrey at the Oval on 26 August 1862, the Kent left-armer Edgar Willsher was no-balled six times in a row by umpire John Lillywhite for raising his hand above the shoulder. Willsher and the eight other professionals in the team marched off the field in protest, leaving the two amateurs stranded. Lillywhite quietly stood down the next day, and within two years the MCC had legalised overarm bowling.

#edgar-willsher#john-lillywhite#overarm-bowling
Mild

All-England Eleven v United All-England Eleven — The First Annual Fixture, Lord's, June 1857

All-England Eleven (AEE) vs United All-England Eleven (UAEE)

1857-06-01

On 1-3 June 1857 the All-England Eleven and the United All-England Eleven met for the first time at Lord's, the boycott of the previous five years lifted by William Clarke's death the previous August. George Parr's AEE beat John Wisden's UAEE; the fixture became the most heavily attended annual match in English cricket and continued every summer until 1869.

#aee#uaee#lord-s
Mild

Yorkshire Cricket's Sheffield Roots — The Bramall Lane Era Begins, 1840s

Yorkshire and various opponents

1843-08-01

Yorkshire county cricket in the 1840s was dominated by Sheffield, the county's largest industrial city, which provided most of the players and virtually all of the paying public. The Sheffield Cricket Club, playing initially at Hyde Park and then from 1855 at Bramall Lane, was effectively Yorkshire cricket's headquarters in this era, and the great North v South fixtures of the 1840s that tested Yorkshire's professionals against the best in England were Sheffield occasions rather than county ones.

#roundarm-era#early-victorian#1840s