Jimmy Anderson knows exactly how to answer his critics!!
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
James Anderson is spurred on by breaking Ian Botham's England Test wickets record
James Anderson: Less than 100 Test wickets behind Ian Botham
James Anderson has no intention of retiring from any form of cricket and has his sights set on Ian Botham's Test wickets record.
Seamer Anderson
turned 30 last summer and took his 529th career international wicket in Hamilton last weekend, passing Botham's mark to become England's most sucessful bowler of all-time.
Of those wickets, 288 have come in Tests and he could well break the 300 mark this summer in the Ashes if he doesn't manage it in away-and-home series against New Zealand, and he also feels Botham's record of 383 remains in sight if his body holds up.
turned 30 last summer and took his 529th career international wicket in Hamilton last weekend, passing Botham's mark to become England's most sucessful bowler of all-time.Of those wickets, 288 have come in Tests and he could well break the 300 mark this summer in the Ashes if he doesn't manage it in away-and-home series against New Zealand, and he also feels Botham's record of 383 remains in sight if his body holds up.
"It's a huge honour," he said of the all-time record. "Overtaking someone like Ian Botham is a massive achievement for me, and I'm very proud of it.
"It is hard to believe, and I also still can't believe I've been playing for 10 years.
"It's still all a bit of a dream come true, and I'm delighted to be still here playing - and I hope I can keep taking wickets for years to come.
"It's still all a bit of a dream come true, and I'm delighted to be still here playing - and I hope I can keep taking wickets for years to come.
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"I'm really proud of where I've got to in my career and how many wickets I've taken. But I really want to try to keep doing what I've done well to get those wickets, and that's concentrate on the little things - each game and each spell I bowl.
"I hope then the wickets will just tot up, and I can look back at them fondly at the end of my career."
On breaking the Test record, he added: "If I stay fit for long enough and play for long enough, I think I can.
"The rotations system has worked pretty well so far; the players have been pretty happy with it. Obviously you want to play as much cricket as you can, because you're not going to play forever, but the management, who make these decisions, have got our best interests at heart.
"I've not been involved in the Twenty20s for a while, but I'd love to play all forms of the game if I could. The schedule probably doesn't allow it, especially with such a big year ahead, and there will be times when players have to be rested."
"I hope then the wickets will just tot up, and I can look back at them fondly at the end of my career."
On breaking the Test record, he added: "If I stay fit for long enough and play for long enough, I think I can.
"The rotations system has worked pretty well so far; the players have been pretty happy with it. Obviously you want to play as much cricket as you can, because you're not going to play forever, but the management, who make these decisions, have got our best interests at heart.
"I've not been involved in the Twenty20s for a while, but I'd love to play all forms of the game if I could. The schedule probably doesn't allow it, especially with such a big year ahead, and there will be times when players have to be rested."
Do you think he can break Beefy's record?
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Ashes 2013: Matt Prior on England's turn to bully Australia.
Australia won eight Ashes series in a row between 1989 and 2003, but England have won three of the last four.
“Players like Ponting and Hussey can't be replaced overnight and I know our guys will be relieved they don't have to bowl at them again”
"Maybe it's our time to do a bit of bullying ourselves."
England will be looking to defend the Ashes urn over five Tests in England in July and August before heading to Australia for the return series in November, December and January.
If they win both, they will be the first England side since 1890 to win four Ashes series in a row, cementing their current position of supremacy in cricket's oldest rivalry.
Having grown up in an era of Aussie dominance, Prior believes it is time to redress the balance.
"If we prepare and perform as we want to, there's no reason why we shouldn't dominate Australia in these two Ashes series," added the Sussex right-hander, who played every Test in England's Ashes victories in 2009 and 2010-11.
"You look at our dressing room and the skills we have in our team - batters, bowlers, the spin department, it's all there.
"But Ashes series are strange - there is no such thing as a weak Australian Test side and we will have to be on our game to do it."
Prior's confidence is bolstered by the relative inexperience of the team Australia will be bringing to England this summer.
Following the retirements of veteran batsmen Ricky Ponting and Mike Hussey, Australia's current Test squad features only five players who have played Ashes Tests in England.
And while the 17 squad members for their ongoing India tour have 58 Ashes Tests between them, England's 15-man party for the New Zealand Tests in March have played a combined 106 Ashes Tests.
"It's going to be a different Australia side," added Prior. "Players like Ponting and Hussey can't be replaced overnight and I know our guys will be relieved they don't have to bowl at them again.
"But as one steps out, it leaves the door open for someone else. The game moves forward and we are going to have to prepare very well against whichever team plays, because they will all be wanting to do well and prove a point."
During their dominant years, Australia routinely targeted England's less experienced players through sledging - a tactic termed "mental disintegration" by former Australia captain Steve Waugh.
According to Prior, England have devised more subtle ways to make their greater experience tell in the heat of battle.
"There's more to it than the odd sledge here and there," he said. "There are other ways of letting guys know they are under pressure or it's a big occasion.
"There are ways of creating an intensity out on the pitch, like the way we hustle around, the way our bowlers put the ball in the right area all day long, not just for an hour or two, but all day.
"Then you have our fielders stopping singles that potentially could have been a four.
"When you come out to bat there's nothing better than crunching a couple of cover drives to get you off and running. But if you suddenly have cover point diving and stopping it, it does get to you."
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wicketkeeper Matt Prior has called on his team to emulate Australia by becoming
"the bullies" in this year's back-to-back Ashes series.
Australia won eight Ashes series in a row between 1989 and 2003, but England have won three of the last four.
“Players like Ponting and Hussey can't be replaced overnight and I know our guys will be relieved they don't have to bowl at them again”
"I remember watching Shane Warne, Matthew Hayden and
Glenn McGrath, and the way they walked around and bullied England," Prior told
BBC Sport.
"Maybe it's our time to do a bit of bullying ourselves."
England will be looking to defend the Ashes urn over five Tests in England in July and August before heading to Australia for the return series in November, December and January.
If they win both, they will be the first England side since 1890 to win four Ashes series in a row, cementing their current position of supremacy in cricket's oldest rivalry.
Having grown up in an era of Aussie dominance, Prior believes it is time to redress the balance.
"If we prepare and perform as we want to, there's no reason why we shouldn't dominate Australia in these two Ashes series," added the Sussex right-hander, who played every Test in England's Ashes victories in 2009 and 2010-11.
"You look at our dressing room and the skills we have in our team - batters, bowlers, the spin department, it's all there.
"But Ashes series are strange - there is no such thing as a weak Australian Test side and we will have to be on our game to do it."
Prior's confidence is bolstered by the relative inexperience of the team Australia will be bringing to England this summer.
Following the retirements of veteran batsmen Ricky Ponting and Mike Hussey, Australia's current Test squad features only five players who have played Ashes Tests in England.
And while the 17 squad members for their ongoing India tour have 58 Ashes Tests between them, England's 15-man party for the New Zealand Tests in March have played a combined 106 Ashes Tests.
"It's going to be a different Australia side," added Prior. "Players like Ponting and Hussey can't be replaced overnight and I know our guys will be relieved they don't have to bowl at them again.
"But as one steps out, it leaves the door open for someone else. The game moves forward and we are going to have to prepare very well against whichever team plays, because they will all be wanting to do well and prove a point."
During their dominant years, Australia routinely targeted England's less experienced players through sledging - a tactic termed "mental disintegration" by former Australia captain Steve Waugh.
According to Prior, England have devised more subtle ways to make their greater experience tell in the heat of battle.
"There's more to it than the odd sledge here and there," he said. "There are other ways of letting guys know they are under pressure or it's a big occasion.
"There are ways of creating an intensity out on the pitch, like the way we hustle around, the way our bowlers put the ball in the right area all day long, not just for an hour or two, but all day.
"Then you have our fielders stopping singles that potentially could have been a four.
"When you come out to bat there's nothing better than crunching a couple of cover drives to get you off and running. But if you suddenly have cover point diving and stopping it, it does get to you."
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Monday, February 4, 2013
Captain Charlotte Edwards scored a century as England got their ICC Women's World Cup campaign back on track with a 32-run win over India.
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