ANDERSON MILESTONE WICKETS

1 – Where better to get your first Test wicket than at Lord’s, Zimbabwe’s Mark Vermeulen the victim in 2003 as he was beaten by one that held its line and slipped past the outside edge and clattered into the stumps.

100 – Good scalp to reach the ton, dismissing South Africa’s Jacques Kallis at the Oval in 2008. Kallis could not get his bat down in time to an inswinger that hit the front pad and trapped him lbw.

200 – On the Ashes tour in 2010-11, fellow quick bowler Peter Siddle. He could only get a thick edge to one that was pitched up, nipped away and flew at a comfortable height to Paul Collingwood at third slip.

300 – Back to Lord’s for his 300th scalp, as New Zealand’s Peter Fulton could not help but play at one just back of a length that took the edge and was well caught low down at second slip.

384 – In Antigua in 2014-15, Denesh Ramdin snicked one to Alastair Cook’s left at slip to go past Ian Botham and become England’s greatest wicket-taker.

400 – Back home in 2015 and his 400th came in the shape of Kiwi Martin Guptill at Headingley as he edged to second slip and Ian Bell did well to hold on to one that flew above his head.

500 – Jimmy certainly likes the home of cricket as he reached this one by getting rid of West Indies’ Kraigg Brathwaite at Lord’s in 2017. Brathwaite leaves a huge gap between bat and pad as he drives but misses the ball and the stumps are splayed.

564 – Two years ago at The Oval, a landmark moment when he bowled India’s Mohammed Shami to overtake Glenn McGrath as the all-time wicket-taker among fast bowlers. McGrath took his 563rd and final Test wicket in 2007 – one James Anderson.

600 – Yesterday. And after all the dropped catches, one that stuck as Azhar Ali is surprised by the extra bounce with an older ball and can only fend the edge to Joe Root.