The Lord’s cricket ground in London is one of the most iconic stadiums in the world and it has hosted many historic matches. The stadium is set to witness another such special moment in test cricket as the cricketing fraternity around the world prepares itself to bid adieu to one of the greatest cricketers to have ever walked the fields. James Anderson has decided to call it a day and is currently playing his final test match for England starting this Wednesday.
As England take on West Indies in the inaugural test match of the series, Lord’s is witnessing a full house on a weekday because nobody who has an opportunity wants to miss this special occasion. James Anderson’s contribution to world cricket is too huge to put into statistics.
He made the batters dance to his swinging deliveries not for a few years but more than 2 decades. It is players like him who demonstrate how sport is not far from art; perhaps a song or poem. There’s gratitude in the air and a sense of collective accomplishment in the crowd. It rarely happens in cricket that the crowd has nothing to ask from a player but only a heartfelt gratitude and teary eyes.
The English fast bowler has been a player who felt ageless and only got better with time. To accept that he will no longer be running to the 22 yards is not easy and it is not just the English fans who’re going to have a heavy heart watching him bowl the final deliveries of his career but everyone who’s ever watched cricket.
