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James Anderson becomes first pace bowler to pick 700 Test wickets

Veteran England pacer James Anderson became only the third man after Sri Lanka’s Muttiah Muralitharan (800) and leg-spinner Shane Warne (708) to achieve the feat in the longest format of the sport. With 698 wickets in his account going into the fifth Test in Dharamsala, Anderson prevailed over Shubman Gill on Day 2 and Kuldeep Yadav on Day 3 of the fifth Test against India to reach the milestone at the HPCA.