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Will any seam bowler ever get more test wickets than James Anderson?

Will any seam bowler ever get more test wickets than James Anderson?

  • No

  • Especially No

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Kenneth Viljoen

Kenneth Viljoen

International Regular
The fitness, the longevity, the privilege of playing for a test team that plays a lot of tests per year , being able to have a lucrative tests only contract towards the end of the career, the uncertainty of Test Cricket being a 5 day format for much longer..All this will be too much for the next generation to overcome.
 
Coronis

Coronis

International Coach
The only way would be if a very talented English pacer (already doubtful) manages to debut young and stay fit as long as he has manged to (especially doubtful), leads me to think no.
 
Molehill

Molehill

Cricketer Of The Year
Coronis said:
The only way would be if a very talented English pacer (already doubtful) manages to debut young and stay fit as long as he has manged to (especially doubtful), leads me to think no.
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One thing to point out is that Anderson only played 20 Tests up to March 2008 (5 years from his debut) and took just 62 wickets. So in the following 15 years he's got 623 in 159 Tests. Broad in the same period has 582 wickets from 162. But these are two all time great English seamers who have had superb longevity too.

McGrath played Test Cricket for 14 years and got in 124 matches (563 wickets). So basically, if England (because they play the most Tests) find a bowler of McGrath's quality and Anderson/Broad's longevity, then it could be done.

Seems pretty unlikely though.
 
FBU

FBU

International Debutant
If SA played more Tests each year it would be Rabada. Just turned 28 and has nearly 300 wickets. Hardly gets injured. 8 Tests a year = 400 wickets
 
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ashley bach

Cricketer Of The Year
Ever is a hell of a long time, so definitely yes. Will we be alive to see it though is the real question.
Pretty much all sports records fall one day, although it's hard to see Don's average bettered, or Nadals French open titles.
 
Flem274*

Flem274*

123/5
Especially no, unless we see a massive upswing in the value of test cricket to administrators chasing the T20 money.

If they manage to crash that market then maybe. CTE lawsuits will probably hit contact sport codes like a truck in roughly 20 years, and fans of Union and (especially) the NRL looking for a new sport with more authenticity than T20 might finally force cricket to remember it is a sport not WWE with a ball. In that case I could see test cricket becoming king again.
 
Coronis

Coronis

International Coach
Flem274* said:
Especially no, unless we see a massive upswing in the value of test cricket to administrators chasing the T20 money.

If they manage to crash that market then maybe. CTE lawsuits will probably hit contact sport codes like a truck in roughly 20 years, and fans of Union and (especially) the NRL looking for a new sport with more authenticity than T20 might finally force cricket to remember it is a sport not WWE with a ball. In that case I could see test cricket becoming king again.
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I hope I’m dead in 20 years then (on track).
 
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