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Anderson was in the side as England played their 1,000th Test match, [163] during the first Test against India at Edgbaston in the five-match series. During the second Test, Anderson picked up his 100th wicket at Lord's in Tests, [164] and his 550th Test match wicket [165] as he took 5–20 in the first innings, and finished with match figures ...
James Anderson became only the third bowler to pick up 700 test wickets but his celebration was muted when England lost by an innings and 64 runs against India in the fifth and final cricket test ...
Anderson took a five-wicket haul on his Test debut in 2003 against Zimbabwe at Lord's Cricket Ground. [10] He took 5 wickets for 73 runs in the match which England won by an innings and 92 runs. [11] In July 2010, he took five-wicket hauls in both innings of a Test match against Pakistan at the Trent Bridge. [12]
[7] [8] [9] Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin crossed the 300-wicket mark in the lowest number of matches (54), [10] whilst South African Kagiso Rabada did so in the fewest deliveries (11,817). [11] The late West Indian player Malcolm Marshall has the best bowling average (20.94) among those who have achieved the milestone. [ 12 ]
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A player has taken two hat-tricks in the same Test match only once. Playing for Australia against South Africa in the first match of the 1912 Triangular Tournament at Old Trafford, Manchester, England, leg spinner Jimmy Matthews took a hat-trick in South Africa's first and second innings, both taken on 28 May 1912.
The duo are four behind the 1,001 scalps Shane Warne and Glen McGrath took in 104 games together
Australia had won nine of the last 10 Ashes series, including winning the most recent series 5–0 in 2006–07, [11] but the 2005 series, the last to be held in England, was won 2–1 by the home side. [12] Australia's last two Test series before the Ashes were played against South Africa, the first in Australia and the second in South Africa.