2024-07-12 16:53:33
London: On one hand, the world’s greatest fast bowler James Anderson is playing his last Test, while on the other hand, a pacer has made a destructive debut for England. He stole the limelight from Jimmy’s last Test by taking 7 wickets in the first innings itself. The bowler’s name is Gus Atkinson and he made a brilliant Test debut against the West Indies batsmen. This London-born fast bowler bowled brilliantly in his first Test itself and took 7 wickets.
Made his debut in James Anderson’s last match and became a hit
England won the toss and decided to bowl first due to overcast conditions. In Jimmy Anderson’s last Test, West Indies openers got off to a cautious start. Ben Stokes and his team needed something special to break the partnership and it was debutant Atkinson who took two wickets in a row to put West Indies on the backfoot.
Gus Atkinson took 3 wickets in one over like this
Once again the Windies batsmen batted superbly and Alick Athanase and Kavem Hodge added 44 runs for the fourth wicket before Atkinson once again took charge and showed the Caribbean power star batsmen the stars in the day time by taking triple wickets in the same over.
He took the wicket of Athanaz and then also took the wicket of Jason Holder. Two balls later, the right-arm fast bowler showed his class and gave England another chance to celebrate by dismissing Joshua Da Silva for zero off two balls. In this way, in the span of four balls, he destroyed the middle order of West Indies.
In no time, West Indies’ innings was reduced to 121 runs in 41.4 overs. Kavem Hogg scored the highest 24 runs for them, while Gus took 7 wickets for 45 runs. James Anderson took one wicket. Chris Woakes and captain Ben Stokes also took one wicket each.