Jimmy Anderson took his 300th Test wicket at Lord's, aged only 30. Jimmy Anderson became the 26th bowler to reach 300 Test wickets when he had Peter Fulton caught at slip by his great mate Graeme Swann in the first innings at Lord's last month. Anderson is actually in a respectable mid-table position age-wise. He is the 13th-youngest (or 14th-oldest) of the 26, being five days younger than Glenn McGrath was when he reached the mark in 2000-01. The youngest man to reach 300 Test wickets is Indian Kapil Dev, who got there the day after his 28th birthday in January 1987. Shane Warne, Harbhajan Singh, Muttiah Muralitharan and Ian Botham were also 28 when they reached 300. The most interesting is oldest man to make it to 300 was West Indian off spinner Lance Gibbs, who was 41 in 1975-76.
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