James Anderson matches Sir Ian Botham with 27 Test five-wicket hauls for England

England seamer picks up 27th Test five-wicket haul

James Anderson has matched Sir Ian Botham's 27 Test five-fors for England - watch all five of his wickets in Barbados here!

James Anderson matched Sir Ian Botham's tally of 27 Test five-wicket hauls for England on day two of the first Test against Windies.

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Anderson (5-46) had Alzarri Joseph caught behind by Jos Buttler in Barbados to equal Botham's number of five-fors, having removed Shai Hope, Roston Chase, Shane Dowrich and Jason Holder on day one as he became the first England bowler to take 200 Test wickets overseas.

Anderson's milestone five-wicket haul came 16 years after his first, which he bagged on debut against Zimbabwe at Lord's in May 2003.

The 36-year-old overtook Botham as England's leading Test wicket-taker on the side's previous Test tour of the Caribbean in 2015 when he made Denesh Ramdin his 384th victim, in Antigua.

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Anderson has now moved on to 570 Test wickets, having become the format's most prolific seamer when he bowled India's Mohammed Shami at The Oval in September to trump Glenn McGrath's tally of 563.

Spinners Muttiah Muralitharan (800), Shane Warne (708) and Anil Kumble (619) are the only bowlers to have taken more Test wickets than Anderson.

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