{"id":10983,"date":"2025-04-11T14:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T14:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/10983\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T14:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T14:39:07","slug":"england-legend-james-anderson-set-to-be-knighted-for-services-to-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/10983\/","title":{"rendered":"England legend James Anderson set to be knighted for services to cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"646\" height=\"431\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2161456593.jpg\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22894534\" alt=\"England v West Indies - 1st Test Match: Day One\" decoding=\"sync\"\/><br \/>\n\t\tJames Anderson retired from Test cricket last summer with 704 wickets (Picture: Getty)<\/p>\n<p>England\u2019s record Test wicket-taker James Anderson is set to be knighted for his services to cricket, the <a data-ico=\"hyperlink-article\" data-track=\"inline-tag-auto-link_article\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/british-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Government<\/a> announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson retired from Test cricket last summer with 704 wickets, holding the record for the most taken by a fast bowler in the format.<\/p>\n<p>He is widely regarded as one of the greatest\u00a0bowlers\u00a0in the entire history of the sport, playing more Test matches for England than any other player.<\/p>\n<p>The 42-year-old played 188 Tests, 194 ODIs and 19 T20 internationals for England in an international career which lasted more than two decades.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson, who made his Test debut for England in May 2003, has now been named on <a data-ico=\"hyperlink-article\" data-track=\"inline-tag-auto-link_article\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/rishi-sunak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rishi Sunak<\/a>\u2019s resignation honours list <\/p>\n<p><strong>More to follow\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\">Arrow<br \/>\nMORE: <a data-ico=\"hyperlink-article\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2025\/03\/27\/key-rohit-sharma-virat-kohli-decisions-made-ahead-england-test-series-22802655\/?ico=more_text_links\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Key Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli decisions made ahead of England Test series<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\">Arrow<br \/>\nMORE: <a data-ico=\"hyperlink-article\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2025\/03\/11\/moeen-ali-says-terrible-rule-changes-killed-odi-cricket-22708143\/?ico=more_text_links\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moeen Ali says \u2018terrible\u2019 rule changes have \u2018killed\u2019 ODI cricket<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Anderson retired from Test cricket last summer with 704 wickets (Picture: Getty) England\u2019s record Test wicket-taker James&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,1406,393,7504,4884,7505,93,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-10983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-cricket","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-england-cricket","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-james-anderson","14":"tag-sport","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114319849340782656","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}