New Delhi: At least one Major League Cricket franchise is keen to have James Anderson in its ranks for the upcoming 2025 season, which could lead to the return of the former England pacer’s return to T20 cricket after a decade.
The right-arm seamer retired from England duty in July after picking up 704 wickets in 188 Tests, becoming the first pacer to reach the 700-mark in red-ball cricket.
His international career stretched for over two decades for which he stopped playing white-ball cricket in 2014 when he played for Lancashire in the NatWest Blast final for Lancashire while his last T20I game was in 2009.
The 42-year-old recently said he still is fit enough to play on and is open to playing in white-ball cricket, which might have made the unnamed MLC franchise interested, a BBC report said.
“Senior figures with at least one MLC team have had their interest pricked by Anderson’s comments last month about a return to white-ball cricket,” it was written in the report, which added that Anderson could fetch £135,000 (approximately Rs 1.49 crore) from the short stint.
MLC has attracted some top names including Australia’s Pat Cummins, Steve Smith, Glenn Maxwell and Travis Head to the Unites States for its second edition this year and will expand to 34 games from 19 in its third edition next year.
After retiring as the most successful pacer in Test cricket, Anderson became England’s pace-bowling mentor and has reaffirmed his commitment to that role during the series against Pakistan in October and during the Test series in New Zealand in December.
MLC is backed by influential names that include Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella and desires to rope in some of England’s top stars to the tournament.
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