{"id":2506,"date":"2021-07-05T21:03:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T15:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=120727"},"modified":"2021-07-05T21:03:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T15:33:09","slug":"james-anderson-takes-his-1000th-first-class-wicket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/james-anderson-takes-his-1000th-first-class-wicket\/","title":{"rendered":"James Anderson takes his 1000th first-class wicket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, England\u2019s fast bowler James Anderson reached the exclusive 1000 first-class wickets milestone.\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">The 38-year-old veteran achieved the historic achievement by taking Heino Kuhn\u2019s wicket during Lancashire\u2019s County Championship match against Kent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Anderson achieved the 1000-wicket club with a blazing morning session of five for three in seven overs, which left Kent reeling at 19\/5.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1\ufe0f\u20e30\ufe0f\u20e30\ufe0f\u20e30\ufe0f\u20e3 first-class wickets <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jimmy9?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jimmy9<\/a> \ud83d\udc4f<\/p>\n<p>Anderson has taken a 5-fer in 7 overs \ud83d\udc10<\/p>\n<p>Watch Anderson bowl here \ud83d\udc49 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uJK9OLMTgs\">https:\/\/t.co\/uJK9OLMTgs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j2535JaiAP\">pic.twitter.com\/j2535JaiAP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rothesay County Championship (@CountyChamp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CountyChamp\/status\/1412049901479993345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Anderson becomes the 216th bowler to take 1000 first-class wickets, w<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">ith 617 wickets from 162 Test matches, Anderson ranks fourth all-time in Test cricket.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The next couple of milestones on the horizon for James Anderson which he can easily achieve is by taking 3 more Test wickets to surpass Anil Kumble, and move up to 3rd all-time in the format. 13 more wickets will see him overtake Wasim Akram and move up to 5th position in overall highest wicket-takers across all formats in international cricket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, England\u2019s fast bowler James Anderson reached the exclusive 1000 first-class wickets milestone.\u00a0The 38-year-old veteran achieved the historic achievement\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":25593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[392,373,389,434],"class_list":["post-2506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-anil-kumble","tag-james-anderson","tag-sports","tag-wasim-akram"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506","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\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}