JM Anderson Profile

General Information Full name James Michael Anderson Born July 30, 1982, Burnley, Lancashire Current age 28 years 178 days Major teams England, Auckland, Lancashire, Lancashire Cricket Board Playing role Bowler Batting style Left-hand bat Bowling Style Right-arm fast-medium Career Statistics Batting & Fielding Statistics Test ODI T20 Matches Played 57 133 19 Innings Played 76 56 4 Not Outs 31 29 3 Runs 524 159 1 Highest 34 15 1* Average 11.64 5.88 1.00 Balls Faced 1481 404 2 St/R 35.38 39.35 50.00 100's 0 0 0 50's 0 0 0 4's 64 10 0 6's 1 0 0 Catches Taken 25 36 3 Stumpings Made 0 0 0 Bowling Statistics Test ODI T20 Matches Played 57 133 19 Innings Played 105 131 19 Balls 12056 6564 422 Runs 6595 5429 552 Wickets 212 179 18 Best Inning Bowling 7/43 5/23 3/23 Best Match Bowling 11/71 5/23 3/23 Average 31.10 30.32 30.66 Economy Rate 3.28 4.96 7.84 St/R 56.8 36.6 23.4 4 Wickets 13 8 0 5 Wickets 10 1 0 10 Wickets 1 0 0 Profile James Michael "Jimmy" Anderson was born 30 July 1982 in Burnley, Lancashire is an English cricketer. He plays first-class cricket for Lancashire County Cricket Club and since bursting onto the scene in 2002/03, before his first full season of county cricket, Anderson has represented England in 40 Test matches and over 100 One Day Internationals. James Anderson was a pupil at St Theodore's RC High School, Burnley. He played cricket at Burnley Cricket Club from a young age. His childhood dream was to be a cricketer, and at the age of 17, after a growth spurt, Anderson was one of the fastest bowlers in the Lancashire League. He stated that "I've always bowled seam, but when I was about 17 I don't know what it was but I just started bowling fast all of a sudden". Anderson made his first-class debut for Lancashire in 2002; he played 13 matches and took 50 wickets at an average of 22.28, including three five wicket hauls. He was awarded the NBC Denis Compton Award for Lancashire's most promising young county player in the 2002 season. In 2003, Anderson became the youngest player to take a hat trick for Lancashire, just a week before his Test match debut against Zimbabwe; it was the first hat trick at Old Trafford in eight years. In a match against Worcestershire in May 2004, Anderson recorded his maiden first-class ten wicket haul. When Anderson was selected for the England one day squad, he had played only five list matches, taking 9 wickets at an average of 26.75. At the age of 20, he made his ODI debut on 15 December, 2002 against Australia at Melbourne. He opened the bowling and recorded figures of 1/46 from six overs. He debut came before he was even awarded his county cap, which occurred in 2003.[21] He showed good promise in this series - a three-team tournament also including Sri Lanka - which earned him a place in the 2003 World Cup squad. It was here that he really broke into international cricket with a match-winning spell against Pakistan, where he took four wickets in day/night game to collect the Man of the Match award. But where there are highs, there are also lows. In what proved to be England's last match of the tournament he conceded 12 runs off the penultimate over against eventual world champions Australia and England lost a closely fought contest.