Anderson takes 100th Test wicket against India but England collapse

That left Anderson on a hat-trick when he next bowls in this match

James Anderson polished off India’s first innings to move closer to Glenn McGrath’s record for the most Test wickets by a pace bowler before England’s openers rode their luck at Trent Bridge on Sunday.

England were 46 without loss in reply to India’s first innings 329 all out, a deficit of 283 runs, at lunch on the second day of the third Test. But thereafter the England innings imploded, mainly to medium-pacer Hardik Pandy, who grabbed 5/28, and they were dismissed for 161. a deficit of 168 on the first innings.

Earlier India resumed on 307 for six after Hardik Pandya had been dismissed by Anderson off the last ball of Saturday’s play, as England’s all-time leading Test wicket-taker became just the second bowler, following Sri Lanka’s Muttiah Muralitharan, to take 100 Test wickets against India.

The wicket also took Anderson, who had innings figures of 3/64, to 556 career Test wickets – just seven shy of Australia great McGrath’s tally of 563, the most by any pace bowler in Test cricket.

India lost their last four wickets for 22 runs in 19 balls Sunday.

Test debutant Rishabh Pant had added just two runs to his overnight 22 when he dragged a Stuart Broad delivery onto his stumps. Ravichandran Ashwin fell for 14 when Broad uprooted the middle stump as the batsman aimed legside.

Anderson ended the innings with two wickets in two balls, Shami lobbing a catch to Broad at mid-on before the England paceman bowled last man Bumrah with a ball that angled into the leg stump before hitting the top of middle.

That left Anderson on a hattrick when he bowled in India’s second innings. However, this was not to be and his first over cost him as many as eight runs.