{"id":1886,"date":"2021-01-23T15:55:12","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T10:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=87809"},"modified":"2021-01-23T15:55:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T10:25:12","slug":"sri-lanka-vs-england-james-anderson-outstripped-glenn-mcgrath-with-30th-5-wicket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/sri-lanka-vs-england-james-anderson-outstripped-glenn-mcgrath-with-30th-5-wicket\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka vs England: James Anderson outstripped Glenn McGrath with 30th 5-wicket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, in the ongoing test series between Sri Lanka vs England, James Anderson England\u2019s fast bowler , outstripped Glenn McGrath\u2019s with his 30<sup>th<\/sup> five wicket haul.<\/p>\n<p>On Day 2 of ongoing test series SL vs Eng, to achieve the 6<sup>th<\/sup> position on the list of bowlers with most 5 wicket hauls Anderson defeated Niroshan Dickwella (92), Suranga Lakmal (0), Angelo Mathews (110), Kusal Perera (6) and Lahiru Thirimanne (43). So far he has 18 wickets in Sri Lanka in 7 tests at an average of 32.94.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Anderson is the only fast bowler to take more than600 wickets and is the 4<sup>th<\/sup> highest wicket taker in Test Cricket. To achieve the third position he needs to take 14 more wickets to go past India\u2019s Anil Kumble.<\/p>\n<p>In Asia this is Anderson\u2019s second five-for. On March 26, 2012, Anderson had picked 5 wickets for the first time at the same venue against Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>After losing the first test by 7 wickets, Sri Lanka needs to win this game to level the 2-match series in Galle earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, in the ongoing test series between Sri Lanka vs England, James Anderson England\u2019s fast bowler , outstripped Glenn\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":24985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[592,373,1005],"class_list":["post-1886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-glenn-mcgrath","tag-james-anderson","tag-test-series"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}