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If I were good enough, and healthy enough, I could have taken 1000 wickets, in 54 years, easily, between 18 wen I started my hands on bowling (unsuccessfully) and now when I am 74). I swear.
Remember Anderson played far too many matches on pace friendly pitches in England, SA, Aus etc. when compared to Zaheer, who played half of his matches at home, on dead pitches.. Still he got so many wickets.. Remember how he whacked the backsides of batsmen when played in English County?? So DO NOT compare the two of them..
James Anderson is NOT a great fastbowler. He is very good and one of the best of his generation, but check records of the true greats all had bowling average under 27 and the true greats were really under 25. His average is above 30 clearly he is not in the league of the all time great fast bowlers.
Dale Steyn is far better...
these days english players seem to be more confident...
Arrow - Anderson is better than Bond; Bond was faster, but Anderson has far better skill, movement and accuracy. Plus injury is important: Bond's body could not cope with his action, which made him pretty useless in the long run.
BCCI (I sense bias here, lol), Zaheer has taken fewer than 300 Test wickets at an average of over 32. He is 35, his career is pretty much over, and those stats aren't going to improve. Anderson is a much better test bowler.
Anderson's career can be divided in two: the first part, 2002-2007, in which he was in and out of the team, had many injuries, form changes, and was still learning his trade; and the period from 2008 to the present, in which he has mastered his craft, and stayed fit (hugely important for a paceman: see Bond, Simon Jones, Ian Bishop and many others).
His Test average is exactly 30 and getting better; his ODI average is under 30. He can reverse swing on flat, non-English surfaces. In 5 years, he may be viewed as a top-level great bowler.
Nice, soft spoken & shy guy. Keep it up James
I think he can be termed as England's best, never in the class of Glenn McGrath or Wasim Akram, Dale Steyn, Shane Bond or Curtly Ambrose. I would rate McGrath as the ulmate pace bowler.
400 looks easy for him.500 should be the target
zaheer khan is better bowler than anderson bcz zaheer bowled more on flat pitches and has picked wicket nearly in same number to anderson's