After sharing 111 Tests with Alastair Cook the batsman’s retirement will have set the pair thinking about their own exits
The wind was up at the Oval on Tuesday morning, blowing in low grey clouds from the south. The summer heat was gone and the light was so poor that the floodlights were on. It seemed autumn had arrived just in time for the last day of England’s season. They feel like a team on the turn themselves, this match the equinoctial point. They have lost Alastair Cook, who has opened for them in every game they have played these past 12 years, and that leaves Jimmy Anderson, 36, and Stuart Broad, 32, as the last two old hands in Joe Root’s team. They have been bowling with the new ball almost as long as Cook has been batting against it.
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Written by Andy Bull
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/sep/12/jimmy-anderson-stuart-broad-england-the-spin under the title “Anderson and Broad close on final spells of two more England journeys | The Spin”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
