Test cricket will lose a part of itself when England’s elder statesman retires and while it will survive, it will be painful
Test cricket will lose a part of itself when England’s elder statesman retires and, while it will survive, it will be painfulh mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head.” A few weeks ago English cricket was thrown into a medium-sized spasm by the news thathad sustained a groin injury playing for Lancashire against Somerset. On one level it felt faintly ridiculous that England’s Ashes chances should rise or fall on the fitness of a man old enough to have bowled at Derek Randall.
This is no nostalgia trip, and in any case the retrospectives have all been done to death. There is nothing new to say about Anderson’s career arc: the flying debut, the Loughborough vandalism, the wobble wizard, the elder statesman, and so on. Rather, I’m more interested in what comes next. Because paradoxically it feels like the longer Anderson goes on, the harder it’s going to be when he finally leaves.
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