Still mentally and physically in shape, 41-year-old Anderson to accept retirement after playing his 188th and final Test against the West Indies at the Lord’s Where were you when James Anderson got the ball to hoop in to Michael Clarke from nowhere, kissing the top of his off stumps at Lord’s in 2015? When he made VVS Laxman almost keel over half a second after sending his off stump cartwheeling at Oval in 2011? When he was out-reversing Zaheer Khan on a scuffed up Eden Gardens pitch under lights in 2012? Last chance to watch him. Lord’s, Wednesday, wherever you are.No fast bowler has played more Tests than Anderson, or taken more wickets than him. The cricket ball was his ally, weaponising the pitch and overhead conditions to seam in and out of the batters’ channel of comfort, inducing them into unforced errors. Virat Kohli remembers. Also Cheteshwar Pujara, his most frequent Test victim.
