James Anderson, 42, wants shock cricket comeback in IPL 10 years after last T20 appearance

James Anderson retired from England work earlier this twelvemonth but could beryllium acceptable to implicit a daze instrumentality to the athletics aft registering for the IPL 2025 mega auction pursuing a stint successful coaching

Ex-England prima James Anderson could beryllium acceptable for a sensational instrumentality to cricket conscionable FOUR MONTHS aft retiring from the sport.

The 42-year-old stepped distant from international trial cricket successful the summer. His last outing saw the Three Lions’ grounds wicket taker instrumentality a further 4 successful an affectional farewell against the West Indies astatine Lords.

Anderson besides stepped distant from the T20 mentation of the athletics a decennary ago. Since retiring, helium has been serving arsenic a bowling manager with England and precocious assisted the broadside against Pakistan.

But helium could beryllium acceptable for a sensational instrumentality to playing. Anderson has registered for the IPL 2025 mega auction for the upcoming season.

He has a basal terms of INR 1.25 crore, which equates to astir £114,000. Each IPL broadside person astir INR 120 crore to walk connected their teams, with the mega auction owed to instrumentality spot November 24 and 25 successful Saudi Arabia.

Anderson’s erstwhile England teammate Ben Stokes volition not registry for adjacent year’s tournament. The erstwhile had antecedently expressed a tendency to instrumentality to white-ball cricket successful immoderate capacity.

“I mightiness beryllium successful a spot of denial due to the fact that I’m good alert I won’t play for England again, but I’ve inactive not made a determination connected my existent cricket career,” Anderson told the Press Association successful August.

“There’s decidedly a spot of intrigue with the shorter formats due to the fact that I’ve not played immoderate franchise worldly before. Watching The Hundred this year, seeing the shot plaything around, it makes maine consciousness similar I could bash a occupation there.

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“I cognize it’s a portion since I played it and my property volition get brought up again but I truly consciousness I’ll beryllium bully capable to play that signifier of cricket.

“Once this summertime is done, I tin beryllium down and person a existent deliberation if I privation to play cricket successful immoderate signifier oregon signifier again adjacent year. I’m rather unfastened astatine the infinitesimal to thoughts of immoderate benignant of cricket, I’m inactive acceptable capable to play and I’m not shutting myself disconnected to anything.”

Anderson has ne'er played successful the IPL before. And helium did not person a agelong vocation connected the T20 beforehand with England. The erstwhile Lancashire antheral made his debut against Australia successful January 2007, with his last T20 headdress coming vs South Africa successful November 2009.

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