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James Anderson in talks to play for Lancashire in 2025 season

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James Anderson appears set to make knowledgeable comeback in Division Two of the County Championship subsequent season, after it was revealed he’s in talks with Lancashire about an all-formats return that may take his profession previous his forty third birthday.

Anderson performed his 188th and closing Check in opposition to West Indies at Lord’s in July 2024. He bowed out after 21 years as an England cricketer with 704 Check wickets at 26.45, and has not featured competitively since.

Nonetheless, he confirmed he had unfinished enterprise when he put himself ahead for the IPL public sale in December – the place he went unsold – and has stayed match throughout his function as England’s Check bowling coach, with common stints within the nets plus work with the workforce’s energy and conditioning coaches.

Now, in accordance with The Telegraph, he is able to decide to a minimum of one closing season with Lancashire – the membership who first signed him as an adolescent nearly 1 / 4 of a century in the past, and for whom he made his first-class debut in 2002.

Lancashire had been relegated from the highest flight of the County Championship final season, though Anderson demonstrated his enduring prowess in first-class cricket with figures of seven for 35 in his solitary look in opposition to Nottinghamshire at Southport in June.

He’s anticipated to be obtainable from the beginning of the 2025 season, together with a return to Lord’s to face Middlesex in Lancashire’s opening match from April 4-7, and – assuming he continues his teaching function with England – he might characteristic in 5 matches earlier than the Check summer season begins with a one-off match in opposition to Zimbabwe in Might.

Anderson’s comeback would additionally should be mixed together with his burgeoning media duties, whereas Lancashire would additionally should pay his wages for the primary time in additional than a decade, now that he’s not an ECB centrally contracted participant.

Lancashire’s first dwelling match is in opposition to Northamptonshire at Previous Trafford within the second spherical of the Championship, starting on April 11.

He might additionally characteristic in Lancashire’s white-ball groups, though he hasn’t performed any type of T20 cricket for greater than a decade. His final match within the format was Lancashire’s four-run loss within the T20 Blast closing in 2014.


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