MARK BUTCHER

It was a brave call from the England management to signal the end of Jimmy Anderson’s career. It was a decision they would have been mulling over and one they were going to have to make at some stage – I don’t think Jimmy was going to retire off his own back.
It’s a very difficult thing to walk away from – the whole theatre of playing international cricket, that buzz you get on day one of a Test match, it’s something you can’t replicate. Very few players get the chance to call time on their own career; most have it ended for them through lack of form or injury or whatever it m...