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Test Match Special

Jimmy Anderson – 600 wickets, but I don’t feel tired

Test Match Special

BBC

Cricket, Sports News, News, Sports

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Just three days after becoming the first ever fast bowler to get 600 Test wickets, Jimmy Anderson joins the Test Match Special team on a rain-delayed first T20 international between England and Pakistan. Jimmy reveals how he celebrated his 600th Test wicket, why he can’t wait to bowl to Virat Kohli again, whether he’s likely to play in the Ashes next year, and how much he enjoys batting.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts

0:04.6

You're listening to the TMS Podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live.

0:10.1

Welcome to Emirates Old Trafford, where we've had yet another damp day in this damp cricketing

0:15.2

summer.

0:16.2

England were 131 for 6 of 16.1 overs against Pakistan when the rain came.

0:21.7

It included 71 from Tom Banton of just 42 deliveries, his highest international score so far.

0:27.9

But during the rain break, it did give us a chance to have a good chat with Jimmy Anderson,

0:31.8

who joined us in the test match special box just three days after his 600th test wicket

0:36.5

fell on the final day of the final test against Pakistan at Southampton.

0:41.0

We talked about that moment, how life has been in the bio bubble and who the best football

0:45.0

are in the team is.

0:46.4

We took plenty of your questions too, and I was joined by Phil Tuffinoli, Shigouha,

0:50.7

Ratif Nawaz and Andy Zoltzman.

0:52.7

You're listening to the TMS Podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live.

0:57.4

Well, it's going to go to Jimmy, you played your last one-day international at the World Cup

1:01.6

in 2015.

1:02.6

I did a lot of stats on you during the last test, and you'll record since you stopped

1:08.5

playing one-day international cricketers, phenomenal averaging around about 20, I think over

1:13.3

the previous four or five years before that, averaging 25, so I'll be very good before

1:17.7

that.

1:18.7

I'll be your best years since then.

1:21.7

Is that a factor?

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