Anderson takes seven-wicket Championship haul ahead of England exit

Anderson, in his first Championship match for over a yr, took 7-35 the most effective figures on this season’s Championship as Nottinghamshire have been dismissed for 126 in reply to Lancashire’s first innings 353-9 declared.

Australia off-spinner Nathan Lyon then took his 800th first-class wicket as Nottinghamshire have been made to follow-on at Southport, with the guests 84-2 at stumps on the third day, needing an extra 143 runs to keep away from an innings defeat.

This is the primary match the 41-year-old Anderson has performed all season as he prepares for the primary Test towards the West Indies at Lord’s beginning on July 10.

But in his first aggressive cricket match because the fifth Test towards India in March, he confirmed few indicators of rustiness as he reeled off a exceptional 10-over opening spell of 6-19, with former England batsman Haseeb Hameed the primary man out when he deflected the ball onto the bails.

If there was a contact of luck about that dismissal, the remaining got here on account of Anderson’s immaculate line and size.

He took all six wickets to fall earlier than lunch after Liam Patterson-White was caught within the slips, with Anderson’s return the fifty fifth five-wicket haul of his first-class profession.

After the interval, Anderson returned to have fellow paceman Dillon Pennington who may make his Test debut at Lord’s caught behind.

By distinction, subsequent week’s match might be Anderson’s 188th Test, with the England spearhead having made his debut again in 2003.

Anderson is the primary seamer and solely third bowler to have taken 700 Test wickets after spinners Shane Warne and Muttiah Muralitharan.

But he has determined to bow out of Test cricket following subsequent week’s sequence opener at Lord’s, with England having made it clear they wished to maneuver on forward of the 2025/26 Ashes.

Anderson, set to turn out to be an England fast-bowling mentor as soon as his worldwide profession ends, has but to verify whether or not he’ll retire from county cricket as effectively this season.

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