{"id":95628,"date":"2021-07-05T20:06:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T20:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=95628"},"modified":"2021-07-05T22:00:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T22:00:40","slug":"anderson-reaches-astonishing-wicket-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=95628","title":{"rendered":"Anderson reaches astonishing wicket milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England fast bowler <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/james-anderson\" title=\"James Anderson\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James Anderson<\/a> claimed the 1000th first-class wicket of his career in the County Championship on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In trademark fashion, the 38-year-old Anderson dismissed Heino Kuhn with an outswinger that the Kent batsman could do nothing more than edge behind to Lancashire wicketkeeper Dane Vilas.<\/p>\n<p>As well as being his 1000th first-class wicket, it also brought up his five-wicket haul in the innings, and Anderson was bowling at the end named after himself at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"adb7b983-95cb-4c8d-b8b7-8de6e2f0cc29\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/adb7b983-95cb-4c8d-b8b7-8de6e2f0cc29\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The bowler made his first-class debut in 2002 and his Test bow a year later against Zimbabwe at Lord&#x27;s. He is the most prolific wicket-taker in England Test history with 617.<\/p>\n<p>He is fourth on the list of all-time wicket-takers in Test cricket, and just the 14th player and fifth seamer to reach 1000 first-class wickets this century.<\/p>\n<p>The last fast-bowler to reach the landmark was Andy Caddick in 2005.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>England fast bowler James Anderson claimed the 1000th first-class wicket of his career in the County Championship on Monday. In trademark fashion, the 38-year-old Anderson <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=95628\" title=\"Anderson reaches astonishing wicket milestone\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95630,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95628\/revisions\/95630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}