Anderson had a broken rib in a fight with a teammate, but he still took 24 wickets in the Ashes

42-year-old Anderson, who is playing the 188th Test of his career, has taken nearly 1000 wickets in international cricket so far, including 700 wickets taken in Test cricket (not including wickets taken in the current Test). He has not only been a part of the England team in the Ashes series against traditional rival Australia since 2006, but during this time his performance has been excellent in the team's four series victories (2009, 2010-11, 2013 and 2015). Anderson has scored a 'century' of wickets in the Ashes, he has taken 117 wickets in 39 Tests in 10 Ashes series so far. During this time his best performance has been 6 wickets for 47 runs.

When he was called 'tuk-tuk' for his slow batting, he responded by scoring the fastest 50 in Test matches and celebrated by doing pushups.

Had a broken rib in a boxing match with Tremlett

James Michael Anderson aka James/Jimmy Anderson, who started his international career in December 2002 with an ODI match against Australia in Melbourne, has the image of a combative cricketer. He does not give up even in adverse circumstances. He showed a glimpse of this in the 2010-11 Ashes. Before this series, England's training camp was held in Germany. Anderson got injured during a friendly boxing match with teammate and fast bowler Chris Tremlett in the camp. Tremlett, who has a strong physique, took this boxing match very seriously. He made strong blows which broke Anderson's rib.

Tremlett later said, 'At that time Jimmy was about 25 kg lighter than me and it was not right to hit him so hard. I felt very bad later.' Due to this 'punch' of Tremlett, it seemed that Anderson might have to miss all or some matches of the Ashes. There was a little more than a month left in the Ashes 2010-11 and in such a situation Anderson's injury was a challenge for the England team management.

The exceptional Anderson has played with over 100 England players, some of whom have even become coaches

He took 24 wickets in this Ashes, England won the series
Fortunately Anderson was fit in time and available for selection for the first Test in Brisbane. He made a strong comeback from injury and proved to be the best bowler of the series. He took 24 wickets in 5 Tests at an average of 26.04 and along with his boxing ring partner Tremlett (17 wickets in 3 matches) became a problem for the Australian batsmen. Anderson's bowling and opener Alastair Cook's 766 runs in 5 Tests played a key role in England's 3-1 series win.

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Anderson's performance in 10 Ashes series
2006-07 : 5 wickets in 3 Tests
2009: 12 wickets in 5 Tests
2010-11 : 24 wickets in 5 Tests
2013: 22 wickets in 5 Tests
2013-14 : 14 wickets in 5 Tests
2015: 10 wickets in 3 Tests
2017-18: 17 wickets in 5 test matches
2019: No wickets in Tests
2021-22 : 8 wickets in 3 Tests
2023 : 5 wickets in 4 Tests

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The fastest bowler to bowl the most balls in international cricket
In the last Test of his career at Lord's, Anderson added another star to his achievements and became the first fast bowler to bowl more than 50 thousand balls in Test cricket. Only three spinners have bowled more balls than him in international cricket. The record of bowling the most balls i.e. 63132 is in the name of Sri Lanka's Muralitharan, while India's Anil Kumble (55346 balls) is second and Australia's Shane Warne (51347 balls) is third.

After Anderson, the fast bowlers who have bowled the most balls in international cricket are Australia's Glenn McGrath and England's Stuart Broad. McGrath bowled 42266 balls in 376 matches while Broad bowled a total of 40980 balls in 344 international matches.

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