Showing posts with label Test Cricket. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Test Cricket. Show all posts

Friday 1 May 2020

James Anderson Future Predictions According to Me

James Anderson is one of the greatest bowler of all time for England. Not only for England who is the best bowler for world cricket. Most of the fans called him ‘King of the Swing’. The meaning of his nickname is the ability to swing the bowl. His swing bowls have created so many problems for the best batsmen in the world. He is an awesome bowler in English tracks and those tracks are ideal for swing bowling.

Jimmy Anderson started his international career in 2002 against Australia. Then he started test career in 2003 against Zimbabwe. After that, he is a regular member of the English test team. He was born in 1982 and now he is 38 years old. He played his last test against South Africa in 2020. Soon after he faced an injury and lost the other two test matches. His future is very doubtful and I believe he will retire from cricket soon.

All cricket matches in the world are stops due to Coronavirus. This will make no more matches to play for him and it’s better to retire for at this stage. Anderson has played 151 matches and taken 584 test wickets. He is the leading wicket-taker for a fast bowler in world cricket. Coronavirus will make no matches to play within England and which will most of the time make Anderson to quick his retirement.

Anderson has done brilliant service for England cricket. This has made to get Knighthood for him and he received Queen’s order in 2015. He has struggled so many powerful batting units in English tracks and finally takes his team into victory. He was received nice support from the other side when he was bowling. Stuart Broad the man who was regular supported him from the other side. They have together break 500+ wickets and it is the best bowling partnership for England forever.

Anderson contributes the English team to win 2009, 2013, and 2015 ashes for England. This has made him proud and it was the biggest win for him. Jimmy stopped playing ODI cricket in 2015 due to their poor performance in 2015 cricket world cup. England eliminated from the tournament after losing the match against Bangladesh. This made him retire from one day cricket. It was finally became a good decision for him and he succeed in the test cricket. However, Anderson is the most ODI wicket-taker for England.

He has taken 100+ wickets in Lord's cricket ground and only Muttiah Muralidharan achieved this effort before. As a cricket fan, I loved his bowling against India in 2018. Indian batsman was facing many difficulties when facing him and who took many wickets. He has trapped Virat Kholi on so many occasions. But Kholi then loves to play against him in English soil.

However, I can believe James Anderson will retire from cricket soon after the Coronavirus case. If he receives a match or series, it will his final series for England as a home series. Anderson still believes he can play England country cricket for a few more years. This is hopeful to see what will happen in the future. I still believe Jimmy will end his career this year.

 


Sunday 27 October 2019

Sri Lanka Tour of Pakistan 2019 December Test Series Confirmed

Sri Lanka Cricket Team will be a tour in Pakistan for two test matches in 2019 December. This series is under the World Test Championship. This tour first announced to held in UAE. But Pakistan cricket board didn’t like to do that. There is a high cost when an arrange a tournament in another country.

Sri Lanka completed a successful tour with Pakistan early this October. But they are not performing well enough with Australia. Test cricket is a different format and Sri Lanka have vastly experience players for the test cricket.

Dinesh Chandimal is a brilliant test batsman and he is waiting to come back again to test squad. Dilruwan Perera will lead the spinning department with Lasith Embuldeniya. Suranga Lakmal will lead the fast bowling department with Nuwan Pradeep. Sri Lanka has Lakshan Sandakan as a left-arm chinamen bowler for the strong spinning department. Dananjaya de Silva is another batting all-rounder and who can spin really well. Dimuth Karunarathna is the Sri Lankan skipper and who will start the test inning with Lahiru Thirimanne. Both Kusal Mendis and Kusal Perera will play as middle players. Niroshan Dickwella will be the keeper for Sri Lanka.

Pakistan is not a good test team and they face a test match after ten long years in their home soil. They have some classy test cricketers like Babar Azam and Sarfraz Ahmed. Hope this series will be a competitive one.

First Test will be on December 11-15 in Rawalpindi and Second Test will be paly on December 19-23 in Karachi Cricket Ground. This is the first time test match play in Pakistan after a terrorist attack in 2009. After the series, Bangladesh and Ireland hope to travel for a Test series against Pakistan in Pakistan.

Safraz Ahmed will lead the Pakistan Test Squad and they expect to face Sri Lanka with young Fast bowlers. I hope Shadab Khan will be spin with Yasir Shah.