It used to be said that the shorter formats were a young man’s game.<\/p>\n
Well, tonight at Headingley it was two 40-somethings that led the way in the first innings.<\/p>\n
Anderson, 43, got it all started. England’s legendary swing king took the new ball, inevitably got the ball moving and after a tidy first five balls, was asked to bowl five more and struck twice.<\/p>\n
The first got rid of left-hander Dawid Malan, who played for another in-swinger and skied the out-swinger Anderson sent down, allowing Buttler to come from behind the stumps to take the catch.<\/p>\n
If that wasn’t the typical Anderson caught-behind dismissal, his second wicket was much more like it – a nip-backer that caught Dan Lawrence on the crease and was given lbw.<\/p>\n
Anderson could have walked off with a four-for but for two dropped catches in the deep – Harry Brook and David Miller the two fortunate batters, showing Anderson can still cause problems for some of the world’s finest.<\/p>\n
His figures of 2-30 were dented the ball after the second of those drops as Patel hammered him over square leg for six.<\/p>\n
By that point, the 40-year-old had already dispatched Ish Sodhi into the stands as he managed to find his timing where just about every other Superchargers batter had failed on a stopping pitch.<\/p>\n
Not bad for a man who admitted he was nervous because he’d been “sitting on a beach in Alicante” prior to his late call-up to The Hundred.<\/p>\n
His blistering innings gave Superchargers a chance but unfortunately for Patel, Jos Buttler – a real youngster by comparison at 34 – also got the measure of the pitch to take Originals to victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It used to be said that the shorter formats were a young man’s game. Well, tonight at Headingley…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-376712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115098841440134805","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376712","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=376712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}