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IF YOU WANT TO RILE JIMMY JUST RUFFLE HIS HAIR

Richard Edwards looks back with James Anderson’s old adversaries to when a star was born

Celebration: James Anderson

He didn’t know it at the time, but when Mark Garaway walked out to face 17 year-old Jimmy Anderson for Hampshire Second XI on a chilly September morning in 1999, he would be batting against a bowler who would take 600 Test wickets.
Garaway was also completely unaware that he would witness Anderson’s rise at first hand with England.
As a 26-year-old in the final year of his contract with Hampshire, though, the Wiltshire-born wicketkeeper, immediately recog...

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