Cricket

How Jimmy Anderson Spent An Entire Ashes Dishing Out The Same Sledge To Chris Rogers

10 years on from the 2013 Ashes, Chris Rogers joined former teammate Brad Haddin and Adam Peacock on Willow Talk for a retrospective.

Where Adam wanted to know – from the middle of the pitch – just how fiery it was.

So Buck went straight back to the start of the series and copping a brute of a sledge from Jimmy Anderson.

Over, and over, and over.

“It had come from in England, England had got ahead in the series, and they were giving it to us,” he laughed.

“I remember Jimmy Anderson – and he has a strong Northern accent…”

GETTING SLEDGED BY JIMMY ANDERSON:

(from 29:34)

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Ethan Meldrum

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