Veteran England paceman played a supporting role for much of the first Test against India, but then sent stumps cartwheeling
In India, Test matches unfold like bankruptcies – ever so slowly and then all at once. For the first four days, and an hour more of the fifth, Jimmy Anderson was in the background of this game, a bit player. In the first innings he took on the job of bowling tight so the bowlers at the other end would have the freedom to be more attacking.
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