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With left-hander Pant at the crease, Anderson now changes his angle of attack, going around the wicket. His assurance bowling around the wicket to left-handers is one small emblem of Andersons commitment to what the Japanese call kaizen: continuous improvement, seeing skill as not a static quality but something that can always be developed. Before turning 30, Anderson only went around the wicket to left-handers 20 per cent of the time; ever since, hes gone around the wicket to them 39 percent. The impact is reliably devastating: Anderson averages 17.7 around the wicket to left-handers in the last five years.

This delivery is full again, angled into Pant, who pushes it to mid-on. Ostensibly, it seems relatively unthreatening as the ball scarcely moves in the air. Yet, unbeknown to Pant, the ball has helped pave the way for his own demise. Three overs later, using the same angle of attack, Pant plays for the ball coming into him again.This time, Anderson's off cutter induces aleading edge from Pant, whichfalls safely into Roots hands at short cover, and Englands greatest ever Test wicket-taker has his 611th victim.

How many more can he get? Like Tom Brady, Anderson long ago rendered precedents moot. All we can be sure of is this: at the age of 38, in the continent that is the overseas fast bowlers graveyard, Anderson is still adding to his legend.

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Anatomy of perfection: How James Anderson bowled one of England's greatest ever overs - Telegraph.co.uk