Anderson and Lancashire severed their 25-year-old association recently after his boyhood county confirmed that they will not offer a new deal to the 44-year-old cricketer.
Former India wicketkeeper Farokh Engineer believes there was no better bowler on view than James Anderson when the ball swung and said the retired England pacer should be honoured with a stand at Old Trafford, his home ground. But Jimmy Anderson takes the cake when swing and seam conditions are available,” Engineer told PTI. “Lancashire have had a few great opening bowlers over the years – the great Brian Statham, Peter Lever, Ken Higgs, Wasim Akram, you could go on and on.
He completed 700 wickets in Test cricket. No other English bowler, in fact, no other pace bowler has kept himself fit at the age of 44, 45.
I told him: ‘Jimmy, you’re the best swing bowler in the world, the best swing bowler I have seen. The way things went about it, you know, he didn’t appreciate it,” said. Engineer, who was honoured with a stand named after him at the Old Trafford last year, said Anderson should be commemorated suitably by Lancashire for his yeoman service to the Red Roses.
“A few years ago, he was dropped from the England team, and he was sitting next to me at (Andrew) Freddie Flintoff’s child’s ceremony. He was so dejected. So don’t be dejected. I’m sure you’ll come back great. “What a comeback it was. So, I think it’s time that he called it a day.
