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England are in a difficult situation in the Ashes series. They have lost the first two games and are going into the third Test at Headingley needing a win to keep the series alive as a match. England veteran James Anderson hasn’t had a great run so far. In the first test at Birmingham he could only pick one wicket with 109 runs. In the second Test at Lord’s he took two wickets for 117 runs. The 181 Tests veteran admits his thinness has nothing to do with his age.
“I’ll be honest. You want to contribute to the big runs and I don’t remember having two such low-key games in a row in the last 10 years. I feel like I’ve always contributed at some point. But I don’t think I’m bowling particularly badly; I’m just going through a thin spot, which you don’t want to happen in an Ashes,” James Anderson wrote in a column for The Telegraph.
“It comes with the territory at my age for people to speculate about my future. I say meager patch, but it’s only two games out of 181. But I get it. It’s a high-profile series and you get the spotlight … a bit more and the easy target is to say he’s doing a bit well but the reason I haven’t taken any wickets isn’t because of my age.
“I’m not thinking about the future. The future for me is just thinking about Thursday and the start of the next test. That’s as far ahead as I’ll look. I’ve said it before, even if it goes well, that I don’t look too far ahead I will just try to work as hard as I can before Thursday If I get the approval I will deliver a performance the team needs If not I will keep working hard and play a role at some stage in the series.”
The third Ashes Test starts on Thursday.
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