Jimmy Anderson is the best ever....

Just hard to gauge a bowler's apparent "improvement" when he's only been playing against minnows.

See also: Stuart Broad (12 of his 17 Tests before this series were against New Zealand and the West Indies). 35 wickets @ 32.

Against the rest - non-minnows - he has 17 wickets @ 57.

JKLever wrote:

ever hopeful wrote: He's had too much criticism

Poor lamb.

It was totally warranted, the Anderson Cycle was permanently stuck in 'bage' - he's only flipped it round to 'middling' as it is...

Sorry JKL, you and Dello are ignoring the the facts because of a silly prejudice. If you don't believe me, check my reply to another of your digs at the bottom of page 2 on

this thread

Give the bloke a bit of credit FFS, you're getting as bad as certain Aussies regarding Lee and MacGill. Criticism was often justified up until a couple of years ago, now you're in danger of looking a bit silly.

Growler in predictable defence of England's Lady Di lookalike fast bowler shocker

Just does my tree in Horrie - same people constantly bitching about the same players over and over, whether it's warranted or not.

This bollocks about Anderson only being any good when conditions suit - hasn't stopped him being our most successful bowler so far in wickets taken and economy, and second best S/R - having also bowled most overs, so not being flatterred by a couple of short lucky spells.

anderson clearly was your best bowler at Edge...then Onions...the other 3 were ineffectual