Gus Atkinson made a big record
Gus Atkinson: The Test match being played between England and West Indies at Lord’s Cricket Ground will be remembered because it is the last international match of the great fast bowler James Anderson. He had already announced that he would not play any more Tests, but Gus Atkinson also made this match historic for himself. The special thing is that this is the debut match of Gus Atkinson. It seems that Gus Atkinson has made it known that he is fully prepared to fill the void left by Anderson’s departure. There have been very few bowlers who have achieved the feat of taking 10 wickets in their debut test.
James Anderson played his last test match
Lord’s Cricket Ground of England is also considered historical. It is also called the Mecca of Cricket. James Anderson is playing his last Test on this ground. Anderson also played his first Test on this ground. Although there are still two more matches to be played in the series, James Anderson has decided that he will play his last match on this ground. He took a total of 4 wickets in his last match. Before this, he had already completed 700 wickets after playing 187 matches. In this way, James Anderson succeeded in taking 704 wickets after playing a total of 188 matches in his career. However, he could not break the record of Australia’s legendary bowler Shane Warne, who has taken 708 wickets in 145 matches.
Gus Atkinson created history
Meanwhile, if we talk about Gus Atkinson, he has become the third bowler to have taken more than 10 wickets while making his Test debut at Lord’s. This happened for the first time in the year 1946. Then England’s Alec Bedser took 11 wickets for 145 runs in the match against India. In the year 1972, Australia’s Bob Massey had taken 16 wickets for 137 runs. Now in the year 2024, Gus Atkinson has created a record by taking more than ten wickets. Not only this, Gus Atkinson has become the seventh England bowler to take ten wickets in his very first Test match. In this way, this has become an unforgettable match not only for James Anderson but also for Gus Atkinson. Atkinson had taken seven wickets in the very first innings of the match, which means he needed only three more wickets to reach the figure of 10, which he did.
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