A phone call from an impressed parent helped ignite the storied career of England’s greatest ever fast bowler
t all started with a phone call. “It was highly unusual for Val to ring me. In fact I don’t think she ever did before or since, that wasn’t her style at all,” says John Stanworth, recalling how Valerie Brown, the wife of the then captain of Burnley CC, Peter Brown, telephoned one Sunday evening in the late-90s.
The teenage Anderson could “bowl absolute jaffas, quick with late swing” but he was raw. The Lancashire leagues were tough and uncompromising. A young Anderson was passed over for trials for Lancashire Under-16s. A different Jimmy would emerge the following spring. Despite Anderson having an unconventional action, namely his head falling away at the moment of delivery, Stanworth says he was largely left to bowl in his own way. “He had these incredible natural attributes and was on a sharp upward curve for the next few years.
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