ENGvsNZ : James Anderson-Stuart Broad pair achieved new heights in Test cricket
ENGvsNZ : James Anderson and Stuart Broad, who returned to England’s squad for the first Test match of the series against New Zealand, have achieved another big milestone together
James Anderson took 4 for 66 and Stuart Broad took 1 for 45 in the first innings of the Test at Lord’s.In the second innings of the match too, Anderson gave England a good start and in his second over, Will Young was run. At the same time, Stuart Broad pushed the Kiwi team on the backfoot by walking Devon Conway. In such a situation, the pair of Daryl Mitchell and Tom Blundell took over the team and took 4 wickets for 56 runs to take New Zealand to 4 wickets for 236 runs at the end of the day’s play.
In the second innings of the Lord’s Test against the Kiwis, the Anderson-Broad pair took a total of two wickets and completed 950 wickets in Test cricket while bowling together. This is the first England pair to reach this milestone and the second pair in Test cricket history after Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath. Warne and McGrath took a total of 1001 wickets in Test cricket while playing together.
It is the first pair of two pure fast bowlers to reach this milestone. The Sri Lankan pair of Muttiah Muralitharan and Chaminda Vaas is at number three in the list of highest wicket-takers playing together. Together they took a total of 895 Test wickets. This pair was also of spinner and fast bowler like Warne-McGrath.
